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"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
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"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
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"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
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"I have danced too deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine."
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"Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own."
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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
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"When you put fear behind the wheel, you're bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime."
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"Better hazard once than always be in fear."
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"Only cowards leave words unspoken."
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"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
Courage
"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
Vanity
"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."
Advice
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
Life
"What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?"
Joy
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."
Youth
"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in."
Emotional
"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."
Heaven
"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
Life
"The newest books are those that never grow old."
Books
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