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“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”2.
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“In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife.”3.
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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.”4.
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“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us further than to-day.”5.
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“All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.”6.
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“And the night shall be filled with music and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.”7.
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“But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger.”8.
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“Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.”9.
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“His brow is wet with honest sweat he earns whatever he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.”10.
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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.”11.
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“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”12.
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“The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.”13.
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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.”14.
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“The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not obtained by sudden flight But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before, A path to higher destinies.”15.
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“Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!”16.
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“Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.”17.
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“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.”18.
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“‘Wouldst thou’—so the helmsman answered,— ‘Learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers Comprehend its mystery!’”19.
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“Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.”20.
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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”21.
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“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”22.
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“The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.”23.
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“Sometimes we learn more from a man’s errors than from his virtues.”24.
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“And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.”25.
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“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
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