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It's always too early to quit.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of Madame Swetchine.

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.

Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. - The Lonely Crowd.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. - Benchley -- or Else!

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

... then the world 's mine oyster.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.