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.
Roosevelt's sentence is severe, yet it protects against shallow expectations. Discipline matures when people stop treating strain as automatic evidence of misdirection.
Its endurance comes from correspondence with reality. Enduring good is often forged, not found ready-made.
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