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The Resolution Of The Combat Is Seldom Equal To The Vehemence Of The Charge.

Yet It Is Necessary To Hope, Though Hope Should Always Be Deluded; For Hope Itself Is Happiness, And Its Frustrations, However Frequent, Are Yet Less Dreadsul Than Its Extinction.

Life Has No Pleasure Higher Or Nobler Than That Of Friendship.

From Thee, Great God, We Spring, To Thee We Tend,- Path, Motive, Guide, Original, And End.

We Seldom Require More To The Happiness Of The Present Hour Than To Surpass Him That Stands Next Before Us.