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it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them.
it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them.
Approximate author period: c. 1863 AD · industrial
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- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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- Approximate author period: c. 1863 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Charles Spurgeon: life dates 1834 to 1892. Wikidata Q278825, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278825 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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