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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

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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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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

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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.

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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

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It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Author

Born: December 23rd, 1812

Died: April 16th, 1904

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