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Endure Quote by May Sarton

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“It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.”

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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

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“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can…

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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

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I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope…

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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

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Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

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Henry B. Eyring

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

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It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged…

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It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he…

Friedrich Schiller

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

William Hazlitt

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It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

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