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Quote by Sidney Lanier
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon you

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. – Sidney Lanier

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Spending two years on my uncles ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. – Robert Duvall

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. – Khalil Gibran

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Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. – Charles Stanley

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