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I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go any where, or to do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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The Day of Miracles was past, and a long, gray road of dogged work lay ahead.
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Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.
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There is no instant step from disorder to order.
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A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.
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Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.
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Where there's a will there's a way.
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If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
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Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.
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But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.
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If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.
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If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
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We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.
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We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.