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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great w

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big. – Theodore Roosevelt

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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. – Plutarch

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Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. – Queen Victoria

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – Victor Hugo

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