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"Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune."
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"If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck."

"For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it."

"For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
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"A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on."

"Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!"

"People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune."

"One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff."
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