?The famous aphorism about talent coming from diligent study is as follows:

1. The lights are on at three o'clock and the chicken is on at five o'clock, which is when men are studying. Black-haired people don't know how to study diligently early, and white-haired people regret studying late.

2. Noble ideals are like flowers growing on high mountains. If you want to get rid of it, diligence is the rope to climb.

3. Genius is not trustworthy, intelligence is unreliable, and it is unimaginable to pick up great scientific inventions by chance.

4. Diligent study is like a seedling that rises in spring. If you don’t see its growth, you will gain something every day. Dropping out of school is like a whetstone. If you don’t see its loss, you will lose something every day.

5. As much as you study hard and practice hard, your talent can be fully utilized. The full development of talent is directly proportional to personal hard work and study.

6. When Heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to a person, he must first strain his mind and will, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions.

7. A qiji can't take ten steps with one leap; a horse can drive ten times, but the merit lies in perseverance; if you persevere, the rotten wood will not break; if you persevere, the gold and stone can be carved.

8. The biggest reason for reading is to get rid of mediocrity. One day earlier will bring more excitement to life; one day later, one more day will be troubled by mediocrity.

9. The sea is deep and unfathomable, but Jingwei dares to fill it; the mountains on the land are undulating, but Foolish Old Man can move them; the clouds in the sky are treacherous, but Nuwa can mend the sky.

10. When everything seemed hopeless, I watched the stone cutter strike his stone hundreds of times without seeing any cracks. But in the 101st time, the stone was split in two. I realized that it was not that blow but the previous knock that cracked it.

11. Laziness is a very strange thing. It makes you think that it is comfort, rest, and blessing; but in fact, what it gives you is boredom, fatigue, and depression; it deprives you of Hope for the future cuts off friendships between you and others, making you increasingly narrow-minded and doubtful about life.