#perils

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Look back, and smile on perils past. ↗

— Walter Scott

#back #look #past #perils

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

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Look back, and smile on perils past! ↗

— Walter Scott

#optimism #perils #smile #inspirational

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. ↗

— Thucydides

#be happy #brave #convinced #free #happy

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#especially #great #hunting #perils

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#frontier #hopes #new #opportunities #perils

Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#perils #righteous #truth #faith