He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  — Ralph Waldo EmersonCourage

• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  — Ralph Waldo EmersonGrowth

• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  — Ralph Waldo EmersonGratitude

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• The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

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• Fortune favours the brave.

  — Latin proverbCourage