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"Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair."

"To some people the impossible is impossible."

"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."

"Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?"

"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."

"Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and if you know anything about their careers you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inord..."

"Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs."

"Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable."

"Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong able alert men go after opportunity."

"Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity and opportunity is likely to c..."