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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
 Abigail Adams

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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
 George S. Patton
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
 Steven Pressfield
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.
 Yagyu Munenori

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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
 Abigail Adams
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
 Abigail Adams
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
 Abigail Adams
Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
 Abigail Adams
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
 Abigail Adams