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"Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age"

--LONGFELLOW.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.--SHERIDAN.
The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of
steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work
in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success
treads on the heels of every right effort.--SAMUEL SMILES.
It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which
is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit
itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never
command.--W.B. CLULOW.
'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
--ADDISON.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if
she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.--JOUBERT.
Successful minds work like a gimlet,--to a single point.--BOVEE.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope
your guardian genius.--ADDISON.
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making
the same one the second time.--H.W. SHAW.

SUICIDE.--Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world.--YOUNG.
God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without
treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are
demanded.--SIR P. SIDNEY.
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that
is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.


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