If you've got a talent, protect it.
It's always too early to quit.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Who seeks shall find.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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