Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Look not mournfully into the past. Wisely improve the present. Go forth to meet the future without fear.

  — Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHope

• Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.

  — Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStrength

• The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but by toiling upward in the night.

  — Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStrength

• Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.

  — Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCourage

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  — Thomas PaineCourage