Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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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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