

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
Traced to Julius Caesar (1599).
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“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
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Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597
verified“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”
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Twelfth Night · 1601
verified“Men at some time are masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
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Julius Caesar · 1599
verified“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
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Hamlet · 1600
verified“This above all: to thine ownself be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
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Hamlet · 1600
verified“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet · 1600
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“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
Helen Keller's Journal · 1938
verified“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Helen Keller
We Bereaved · 1929
verified“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living · 1960
verified“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Harijan · 1947
verified“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
The Doctrine of the Sword, Young India · 1920
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