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Make trial how the life of a good man succeeds with you, the life of one who is content with the lot appointed him by Providence
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the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress
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Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?
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In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.
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Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.
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If you are beaten off, return again to the effort, and content yourself that your conduct is generally such as becomes a man.