“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.”
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Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.