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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Richard Grenier
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
Thornton Wilder
People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.
Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder
I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
Thornton Wilder
