Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discov… — Lincoln Ellsworth

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. — Oscar Wilde
If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration. — Lincoln Ellsworth
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