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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

The best way out is always through.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.

We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise.

Though much is taken, much abides.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.