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The law of nature is, do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Compensation · 1841

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“Practice is nine tenths.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Power, 1860 · Primary source

“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

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Action 21 Capability 6 Effort 16 Self-reliance 48 Repetition 2 Skill development 1 Discipline 18 Mastery 2 Intellect 4 Mental exercise 1 Learning 18 Continual use 1