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"Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
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"Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally."
"Discouraging words should not weigh you down instead they should challenge you."
"Mrs. Allan's face was not the face of the girlbride whom the minister had brought to Avonlea five years before. It had lost some of its bloom and youthful curves, and there were fine, patient lines about eyes and mouth. A tiny grave in that very cemetery accounted for some of them; and some new ones had come during the recent illness, now happily over, of her little son. But Mrs. Allan's dimples were as sweet and sudden as ever, her eyes as clear and bright and true; and what her face lacked of girlish beauty was now more than atoned for in added tenderness and strength."
"In times of adversity we develop our senses of creativity and strength of our souls."
"You're not going to always hit a home run in life. You're going to strike out! You're going to walk to the dugout of life, frustrated, while spectators chirp your name in judgment. They're afraid to even get on the field, and you know it. The fact that you get back up there, unafraid, going after that next home run, makes you the person you are."
"Even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lighting or take severe beatings from the cruel wind, but you will always get back up and stand strong on your feet again, soak in the sunlight, and be prepared to get hit by even the most merciless hail - time and time again."
"Inflate yourself with a genuine passion always. This makes it possible for you to bounce back when you fall. The football is loaded with air and no sooner does it hit the floor than it bounces back again!"
"A strong soul recovers from any suffering."
"He disposes Doom who hath suffered him."
"Experience The Wholeness Of Purpose Is To Be Equipped To Face Ungodly Governmental Policies."
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"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
"Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write."
"The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me."
"Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young."
"The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
"Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed."
"If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
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