Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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Difficulty is not always a warning sign. In many worthy pursuits, it is part of the admission price.
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Roosevelt's sentence is severe, yet it protects against shallow expectations. Discipline matures when people stop treating strain as automatic evidence of misdirection.
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Its endurance comes from correspondence with reality. Enduring good is often forged, not found ready-made.
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