• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) 1694–1773
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. inconsistencies
2. character
3. success
4. without
5. efforts
6. wastes

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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. by : Lord Chesterfield

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