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• Any man can work when every stroke of his hand brings down the fruit rattling from the tree to the ground
  but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement, by the power of truth -- that requires a heroism which is transcendent....
• When the tree is fallen [down], every man goes to it with his hatchet. -- Proverb
• Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. -- Henry Ward Beeche
• A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unrolled.
  We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell has already rung....
• They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree. -- Old Testament -- Micah iv, 4
• In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
  -- Henry Ward Beeche...
• To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
  -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes iii, 1...
• BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.
  A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....