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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic read more
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break read more
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to read more
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot read more
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
