"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion."
― William C. Bryant
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Strength
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- "Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature’s teachings."
- "Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."
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- "There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death."― Samuel Butler