George Macdonald
"The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it, and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail."
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Rose Terry Cooke
"We've all got to go to school, I expect, and we don't all get the same lesson to learn, but the one we do get is our'n, 'taint nobody else's, and if it's real hard, why, it shows the teacher thinks we're capable."
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Thomas a Kempis
"A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!"
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James A. Garfield
"If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil."
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Thomas Carlyle
"Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time -- he will do it better, he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music."
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William Makepeace Thackeray
"The world has battle-room for all. Go fight and conquer if ye can. But if ye rise or if ye fall, Be each, pray God, a gentleman!"
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Sir William Osler
"Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life."
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Washington Gladden
"It is better to say, 'This one thing I do' than to say, 'These forty things I dabble in.'"
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