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“No great work has ever been done “at a heat.” It is the result of repeated efforts, and often of many failures.”
- Source
- Thrift
- Date
- 1875
Meaning of “No great work has ever been done “at…”
Repeated attempts and failure are treated as normal parts of producing substantial work, countering the idea that important creation happens fully formed in one effort.
Where does it come from?
Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. The sentence immediately follows the poetry example and presents substantial work as the product of repeated effort and failure; the absolute wording is Smiles’s rhetorical generalization.
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