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Quote by Joseph Conrad
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There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. – Joseph Conrad

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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. – Joseph Conrad

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Courage
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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. – Joseph Conrad

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Despair
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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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Fear
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. – Henry David Thoreau

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Oh, one world at a time! – Henry David Thoreau, when asked about afterlife

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. – Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

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