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Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis

Danish Journalist

Born: May 3, 1849

Died: May 26, 1914

Away Before Blow Crack Gone Hammering

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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis

Will Before Gone Hundred Hundred Times Split Had Perhaps Know Look Without Rock Hammering His Times Crack Did Blow Stone Much Showing Away Last Two

Some defeats are only installments to victory. Jacob Riis

Victory Some Only Defeats

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob Riis

Humor Sense Live Think Saving More

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Jacob Riis

Nothing Hundred Hundred Times Seems Perhaps Look Without Rock Go Hammering His Times Crack Much Help Showing Away

I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis

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