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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy

Let us strive hardily for success even if by so doing we risk failure, spurning the poorer souls of small endeavor who know neither failure nor success.

If a man stumbles, it is a good thing to help him to his feet. Every one of us needs a helping hand now and then.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming

There is little place in active life for the timid good man.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us.

our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it is to-day, and to the generations yet unborn

almost any man can do a great deal, if he will, by getting the utmost possible service out of the qualities that he actually possesses

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

By flight alone we cannot overcome, but by endurance and true humility we are made stronger than all our enemies.

If thou bear it unwillingly, thou makest a burden for thyself and greatly increaseth thy load, and yet thou must bear it.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.

One temptation or sorrow passeth, and another cometh; and always we shall have somewhat to suffer

This it must be; and there is no means of escaping from tribulation and sorrow, except to bear them patiently.

What doth care about future events bring thee, save sorrow upon sorrow?

Life seems terribly foreshortened as they look back and the mountain they set themselves to climb in youth turns out to be a mere spur of immeasurably higher ranges when, by failing breath, they reach the top.

When I hear some of my young friends complain of want of sympathy and encouragement, I am inclined to think that my naval life was not the least valuable part of my education.

Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master, that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes