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Small steps add up
Echoes
Smiles writes: “Great results cannot be achieved at once”, and we must advance “step by step”. He credits no one for it; De Maistre is named only for patience, a nearby point.
- c. 700 BCE
“for if you add only a little to a little and do this often, soon that little will become great.”
Hesiod, Works and Days. Earliest we can find, about 2,600 years earlier.
- 1859
“Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.”