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These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
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It is notorious that a single successful effort of moral volition, such as saying 'no' to some habitual temptation, or performing some courageous act, will launch a man on a higher level of energy for days and weeks, will give him a new range of power.