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Virgil uses the phrase about the labour that overcomes obstacles in farming, so it began as a claim about work rather than about virtue. Its English form keeps the Roman plainness, which is why it sits better on a workbench than on a poster.
Quotes that share a topic with this one.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
The harder you fight for something, the greater you feel when you achieve it.