"All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word."

Strength, Effort, Struggle, Perseverance, Life

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"All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word."

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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."

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"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."

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"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."

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