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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but...” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Go back? . . . No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance; yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness.” Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“remember that what has once been done may be done again.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“If we walk far enough . . . I am sure we shall sometime come to some place.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit...” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“Don’t let the Muggles get you down!” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“I’m going to keep going until I succeed — or I die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1)
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1)