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"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."
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"We cannot hope to change a nation without facing trials and persecution in the process."

"In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment."

"Sometimes you don't even know how strong you are, the devil sees it before you do and attacks."

"You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing."

"Fear makes a cub sound like a lion. Faith makes a lion sound like a cub."
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"I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil."

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased."

"Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below."

"Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start."

"Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways."

"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"

"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances."
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