An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which … - Samuel Smiles

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Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door. ' There, it's open.

Samuel Smiles

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

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"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

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The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

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