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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."

"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."

"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."

"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."
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"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."

"God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress."

"God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again."

"The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words."
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