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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - September 13, 2014
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)  
They can conquer who believe they can.
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Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)  
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives,' Thoughts and Meditations, 1960  
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)  
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