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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.


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GURU NANAK If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
SNOW PATROL Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
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MAJOR TAYLOR We have to overcome with patience what separates us and treasure what brings us closer and unites us...
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA We all have demons that were trying to fight; mine just happens to be you.
ANMOL ANDORE Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided wh...
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AVINA CELESTE Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
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SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
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ANGIE KARAN We will not surrender and we will fight with courage. We will face our fate together with the Palest...
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Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
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DHARM BABU The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on.
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LALAH DELIA Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
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EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF Any man who inflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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SHARON DELAROSE All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands...
HEINRICH HIMMLER Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking...
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CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
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LAURIE ANDERSON I just never thought I'd get to see how beautiful you'd become
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