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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. – Josh Billings

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. – Josh Billings

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Adversity
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings

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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. – Author Unknown

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A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Perseverance

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. – Buddhist Saying

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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert Schuller

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Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didnt want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen. – Gil Scott-Heron

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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. – Arthur Helps

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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. – Anatole France

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Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. – Shaquille ONeal

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