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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

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The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

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It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

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When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 7th, 1849

Died: July 22nd, 1916

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