"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
-Hosea Ballou
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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."
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"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
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"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."
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"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation."
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao Tzu
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
-e. e. cummings
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
-Anais Nin
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
-Maya Angelou
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"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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