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“Forget the dogs; books were man's best friend.”
― Jesseca Wheaton, A Question of Honor

“Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.”
― Gen. Robert E. Lee

“I may not know much, but I know this: You can't save the world, Tyler. You were never created to, and you're gonna fail every time you try. Because only one Person can do that job. And He never fails.”
― Sarah Grace Grzy, Never Say Goodbye

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“I don't really know; I'm not in the Operations Room, you see. All I do know is that the world has a Chief who was victorious when the powers of darkness struck at Him with everything they had. He has the plans today. The darkness won't last forever. There's a splendor beyond.
~Flying Officer George Dymory Ingleford, Enemy Brothers”
― Constance Savery, Enemy Brothers

“I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens

“Perhaps courage didn't come in the way you would most expect. It wasn't brave heroics, or pushing yourself to get through hard times.
No, courage was surrendering yourself to God and letting Him guide you.”
― Jesseca Wheaton, A Question of Courage

“Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”
― Ernest Shackleton

“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.”
― Robert E. Lee

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“I always advise people never to give advice.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“I expect I shall feel better after tea.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves

“All I do know is that the world has a Chief who was victorious when the powers of darkness struck at him with everything they had. He has the plans today. The darkness won't last forever. There's a splendour beyond.”
― Constance Savery, Enemy Brothers

“As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“For scientific discovery, give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when you are seeing no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton”
― Raymond Priestley

“Through endurance we conquer.”
― Ernest H. Shackleton

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
― Gary Provost