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"A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way."
"How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this."
"So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry."
"Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did."
"What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust."
"I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it."
"Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime."
"O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her."
"Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty."
"Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill."
"Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down."
"Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one."
"Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom."
"Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?"
"Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal."
"Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon."
"Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast."
"What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?"
"I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery."
"A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!"