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"To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall."
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"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."
"He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that the courage of our fathers teaches us today! The courage and the wisdom that propelled our fathers to move unrelentingly in their days must be nothing to us, but, a real reason for us to be more than courageous enough to do the undone distinctively in our days."
"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."
"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
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