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"Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things."

"No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone."

"Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious."

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be."
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"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself."

"No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory."

"The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age."

"Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off-all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms That's how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
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