It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world

Quote by William Cobbett

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Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much...

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much...

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an...

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an...

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but...

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but...

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but...

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the...

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the...

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

You never know what you can do till you try.

You never know what you can do till you try.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of...

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of...

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you...

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you...

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits...

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits...

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it...

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Please your eye and plague your heart.