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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
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Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
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Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
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Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
[ Present ]
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We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
[ Progress ]
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
[ Health ]
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
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