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my beloved,
I am certain of nothing more than your existence
a thousand ants crawling under a log may find themselves exposed
in my childlike search for you
Saul Williams
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation
means. This is an obvious lie.
Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong
it is. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk
against it, not by lying down.
A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply
does not know what it would have been like an hour later.
That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about
badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we
try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never
yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full
what temptation means--the only complete realist.
C.S. Lewis
It is not the critic who counts.
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles
or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again
and again,
because there is no effort without error or shortcoming,
but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
who spends himself for a worthy cause;
who, at his best, knows the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at his worst, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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