Chapter XIII
In Conclusion
"Genius is only protracted patience."—Buffon.
"Long, patient toil fits for emergency."
"Peril breeds power."
"Genius is painstaking."—Longfellow.
"Genius is two per cent.; hard work ninety-eight."
"I never did anything worth doing by accident."—Edison.
"If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it; toil is the law."—Ruskin.
"The King is the man who can."—Carlyle.
"Every great work is the result of vast preparation."
"Thorough mastery of great principles by Patrick Henry, Hamilton, Webster, Lincoln, was the result of years of study of those giant intellects."—President Bashford.
"Know what thou canst work at; and work at it like Hercules! That will be thy better plan."—Carlyle.
"It was by the friction of tremendous difficulties that the bright, gifted young man, David, the son of Jesse, became developed into one of the chiefest men of Old Testament history. His conflicts with King Saul -were worth more to him than millions of gold."
"Many persons owe their good-fortune to some disadvantage under which they have labored, and it is in struggling against it that their best faculties are brought into play."
"Learning in a broken body is like a sword without a handle."—Beecher.
"Mankind mistake difficulties for impossibilities. This is often the chief difference between those who succeed and those who do not."—Franklin.
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