Quote by Josh Billings
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

Other quotes by Josh Billings

Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. – Josh Billings

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funny
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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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Poverty
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. – Josh Billings

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Perfection
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Other Quotes from
Perseverance
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You can move a lot of water with a thimble. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Perseverance

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Perseverance

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. – Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life

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Perseverance

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Perseverance

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When I did E.T., it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of This is what I want to do with my life and this is where Im going to survive. – Drew Barrymore

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Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter… This is it… If you dont get it here, you wont get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; heres the place to have the experience. – Joseph Campbell

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