"To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure."
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"These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed."
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"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother."
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"Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise."
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"All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried."
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"What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?"
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"It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown."
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"Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things."
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"Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind."
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"Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure."
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"Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest."
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"Endurance is the crowning quality."
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"All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood."
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"Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year."
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"I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him."
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"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."
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"I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes."
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"The victory of endurance born."
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"For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance."
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"O, she misused me past the endurance of a block."
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