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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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