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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.