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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Everything yields to diligence.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.