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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one… – William Cowper

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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – William Cowper

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Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. – William Cowper

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So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. – Thornton Wilder

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Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. – Alvin Adams

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