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- Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
- Ausonius
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
- Nelson Boswell
- Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
- Charles Buxton
- One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
- Percival
- To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
- Robert Cecil
- We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.
- Rule of Life
- Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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