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More than once in my short life I have been struck by the value of the man who is blind to what appears to be a common-sense certainty: he achieves the impossible.
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What pulled Scott through was character, sheer good grain, which ran over and under and through his weaker self and clamped it together.
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The point is, every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed. But do you have guts to fail?
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You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it.
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As I look back on my struggle to write that little story, it seems to me that I must have had a prophetic vision of the good that would come of the undertaking, or I should surely have failed.
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Joy deserted my heart, and for a long, long time I lived in doubt, anxiety and fear.
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Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
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Courage returns as we gaze; when we see what has been, we doubt no more that it can be again.
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Look back on these forebodings, not hastily but reluctantly made, and see how in every instance they have completely failed.
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Nevertheless, he who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest.
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Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.