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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done
Don't think, just do
All that we do is done with an eye to something else
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do
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