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“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”

“I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!”

Needs Beautiful Alive Fate Thousand Overcoming Obstacles Superiors Throat Measuring

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.”

Thinking Men May Made Reality Language Progress Thousand Overcoming Tongue Internals Wiser

Author:E.D. Baker

“Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.”

Should Firsts Mean Asks Prayer Answers Thousand Thirds Overcoming Temptation Ask Me Repeats

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.”

Way Years Two Ends Evil Jesus Taught Thousand Years Ago Overcoming Bounds My Way Thousand Years Overcoming Evil

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.”

Source: Symposium

“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”

Men Mind Wisdom Winning Boys Failure Thousand Overcoming Defeat Obstacles Great Men Spite

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.”

Way Believe Long Hard Helping Shows Problem Dream Seems Lying Chance Behinds Principles Thousand Prove Overcoming Blind Solve Coincidence Our Dreams

Author:Richard Bach

“There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?”

Eye Secret Thousand Overcoming Lifetime Betrayal Wounds Isolation Her Eyes Distrust

Book:Mind Game

Source: Mind Game

“Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.”

Men Literature Thousand Overcoming Good Man Good Christian

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.”

Ifs Men Giving Race Subjects Thousand Overcoming Twenties Jew Yield Inches Testimony Payment Pernicious Hardened Magistrates Usury

Book:The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther

“When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well, I have God, and His Word is true. Though the superstitions of the heathen were a thousand times stronger than they are, and the example of the Europeans a thousand times worse; though I were deserted by all and persecuted by all, yet my faith, fixed on the sure Word, would rise above all obstructions and overcome every trial. God's cause will triumph. (William Carey, quoted in Iain Murray, The Puritan Hope, Banner of Truth 1971, p 140.)”

“I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in a precise manner. Distance and deflection were carefully judged before firing. This is not something that comes by accident; only by experience can a pilot overcome feelings of panic. A thousand missions could be flown and be of no use if the pilot has not exchanged fire with the enemy.”

Ifs Made Use Feelings Able Enemy Fire Thousand Shots Overcoming Down And Distance Calm Missions Accidents Planes Aviation Combat Judged Pilots Panic Precise Deliberate Firing Deflection

Book:The look of eagles

Source: The look of eagles