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 There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed, but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.  All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. - Napoleon There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity. Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article. No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy! The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. No one is happy all his life long. Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat. I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going. What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly. Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it. Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical. 
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