Quote by William Faulkner
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. – William Faulkner

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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. – William Faulkner

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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. – William Faulkner

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. – William Faulkner

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright, quoted in Reader’s Digest, June 1995

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. – Mark Twain

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Optimism is the foundation of courage. – Nicholas Murray Butler

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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. – Dan Rather

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