I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. - Charles Spurgeon

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Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength

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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. -Saint Francis de Sales

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Give me the strength to leaf, for I fear otherwise we may hang ourselves. ― Stephanie Hemphill

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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin

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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do. ― Booker T. Washington

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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

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