"When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

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"You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfections in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. It is perseverence in the pursuit of studie that is really wanted."

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"Don't keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before, and something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought."

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"A man, as a general rules, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."

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"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another."

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"We are too inclined, I think, to walk throught life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked."

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"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."