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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.
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Ideal aspirations are not enough, when uncombined with pluck and will.
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Excitements, ideas, and efforts, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.
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The transformation, moreover, is a chronic one: the new level of energy becomes permanent.
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First comes the very extremity of distress, then follows unexpected relief.