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" To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. "

Benjamin Franklin

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" I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone. "

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" The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical. "

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" Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future. "

" I had a fear of being alone. "

" We're all in this alone. "

" If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. "

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" It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. "

" I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved. "

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" Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes. "

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" It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. "

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" I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death. "

" Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. "

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" I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life. "

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" The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. "

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" Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. "

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