Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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"Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."

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"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."

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"The man well prepared for the struggle has achieved half a triumph."

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"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

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"The man who is prepared has his battle half fought."

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Epicurus

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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