One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best that we are made strong by what we overcome that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly that power waits upon him who earns it that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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