A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

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Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it.

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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.