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Knowledge is a steep which few may climb,
While Duty is a path which all may tread.

— Lewis Morris The Epic of Hades (1877)

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Quoted by John Bright at the unveiling in 1877 of the statue of Richard Cobden at the Wool Exchange, Bradford.

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How far high failure overleaps the bound
Of low successes.

The Epic of Hades (1877)

Toil is the law of life and its best fruit.

What power was this—chance, will you say? But chance, what else can it mean
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Duty is the path that all may tread.

The passionate love of Right, the burning hate of Wrong.

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