You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

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When one door closes, another one opens.

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I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

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

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.

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