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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."

"Do you ever feel like you have been stopped dead in your tracks? That you have fallen and can't get up? Or like you are stuck in a rut or wading in muck? Paralysis, inertia, and being stuck, can be disempowering and disabling. What is it going to take for you to restart your engines and get moving again?"

"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."

"In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."

"Do not give up. Be strong!"

"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."

"When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed."

"Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap."

"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."

"A victor knows that problems exist but he does not isolate himself from them."
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"The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow."

"The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem."

"Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."

"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."

"The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible."
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