quote · Legacy record
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
In print by 1896 AD · industrial
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- La Bruyère (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1896 AD · industrial
In print by 1896: recorded in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Patience · anthology attribution: La Bruyère
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