It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pur…

Samuel Smiles
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It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man-in a word, it is the Man himself. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1861). Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct, p.203
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