Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

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There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

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I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

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