August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

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"Without humility there can be no humanity."

- John Buchan

Compassion

"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."

- John Buchan

Hope

"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions of hope."

- John Buchan

Hope

"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."

- John Buchan

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity