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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. – African Proverb

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Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. – African Proverb

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Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. – August Wilson

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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us. – Henry Ward Beecher

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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot

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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. – Abraham Lincoln

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