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"Fear is not respect. It is but a conniving, little weasel next to that mighty lion. They are a far, far cry from the same animal."

"Chirp of coward shouted in crowd,dare to speak but not to be known."

"Dare to learn. Dare to think. Dare to be irrational."

"There is tragedy all around us, we pick up pieces, we find our feet and before long another turn of events stare us in the eyes; like we're some kind of magician- the fight seems endless, so I look to the world for inspiration. I observe and I watch how others face adversity, some hide from it, some master each lesson and some create a life with it... Our lessons don't define us, our integrity to keep rising after every fall is."
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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time."

"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
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