How much better to have tried and failed at oil prospecting or a diaper service game than to have failed at practically nothing.
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Success comes to the common man, and even to commonplace ability; but to triumph over the calamities and terrors of mortal life is the part of a great man only
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Disaster is virtue's opportunity
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Without an adversary, prowess shrivels
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If Nature intended for you not to be able to endure something, it would destroy you
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Virtue is nothing else than correct reasoning
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Let Nature deal with matter, which is her own, as she pleases; let us be cheerful and brave in the face of everything, reflecting that it is nothing of our own that perishes.
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When I see a man anxious, I say, "What does this man want? If he did not want something which is not in his power, how could he be anxious?"
How much better to have tried and failed at oil prospecting or a diaper service game than to have failed at practically nothing.
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Success comes to the common man, and even to commonplace ability; but to triumph over the calamities and terrors o...