Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

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"Over all our happy country over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes–is our Army of the Dead."

- Will Carleton

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"Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead."

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"Over all our happy country – over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes– is our Army of the Dead."

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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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