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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship
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102
Life is a navigation; we are perpetually wallowing and dashing one against another; sometimes we suffer shipwreck, but we are always in danger and in expectation of it.
103
Oh! the delights of rest when a man comes to be weary, and of meat when he is heartily hungry.
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Providence treats us like a generous father, and brings us up to labors, toils, and dangers; whereas the indulgence of a fond mother makes us weak and spiritless.
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How many casualties and difficulties are there that we dread as insupportable mischiefs, which, upon farther thoughts, we find to be mercies and benefits?
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In time, the most stubborn grief will leave us, if in prudence we do not leave that first.
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There are a thousand other instances in which application has conquered all obstacles, and proved that nothing which the mind has set itself to endure is difficult.
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Misfortunes press hardest on those who are unacquainted with them: the yoke feels heavy to the tender neck.
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Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.
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Do not, I beg you, dread those things which the immortal gods apply to our minds like spurs: misfortune is virtue's opportunity.
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Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.
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Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.
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Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.
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Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.
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No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.
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the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress
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If you are beaten off, return again to the effort, and content yourself that your conduct is generally such as becomes a man.
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To the man who is penetrated with true principles, the shortest, the most common hint is a sufficient memorial to keep him free of sorrow and fear.
119
So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man—the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up
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Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.
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he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack
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My dear Laelius and Scipio, we must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains.
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Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.
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Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
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Overlooking partial and temporary evils as inseparable from the practical operation of all human institutions, and looking only to the general result, every patriot has reason to be satisfied.