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These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

First comes the very extremity of distress, then follows unexpected relief.

Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Excitements, ideas, and efforts, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.

The transformation, moreover, is a chronic one: the new level of energy becomes permanent.

Ideal aspirations are not enough, when uncombined with pluck and will.