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"Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?"

"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become."

"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do."
— Bruce Crampton, professional golfer (b. 1935)

“Fall seven times. Stand up eight.”
— Japanese proverb

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
— Mary Pickford (Gladys Louise Smith), American actress (1893-1979)

“It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns.”