The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else even if it only be the art of raising lentils receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

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Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later.

Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as t

To be always intending to make a new and better life, but never to find time to set about it, is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

I will love the light for it shows me the way yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me th

I will love the light, for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness, because it shows me the stars.

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