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• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

  Felicia Hemans

  Courage, Heart, Suffering

  Felicia Hemans (2002). “The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition”, p.91, Broadview Press

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• It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

  Martial

  Real, Adversity, Easy

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• A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christian, Courage, Foundation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.88

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• I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

  Helen Keller

  Fighting, People, Want

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.73, American Foundation for the Blind

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• He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

  Martial

  Bears, Burden

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• Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

  John Milton

  Faithful, Suffering, Victory

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.489, Mercer University Press

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• Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Comfort, Bears

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• Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Quality, Endurance

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The history of Henry Esmond, esq”, p.50

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• Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

  William Blake

  Passion, People, Thieves

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.135, Penguin

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• I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Regret, Writing, Past

  Robert Falcon Scott, Leonard Huxley (1913). “Scott's Last Expedition ...: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R. N., C. V. O. Vol II. Being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition, Arranged by Leonard Huxley; with a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham ... With Photogravure Frontispieces, 6 Original Sketches in Photogravure by Dr. E. A. Wilson, 18 Coloured Plates (16 from Drawings by Dr. Wilson), 260 Full Page and Smaller Illustrations from Photographs Taken by Herbert C. Ponting and Other Members of the Expedition, Panoramas and Maps ...”

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• Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

  Saint Augustine

  Loss, Soul, Disposition

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• Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Running, Helping Others, People

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• Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

  Rex Stout

  Admiration, Wealth, Advantages And Disadvantages

  Rex Stout (2011). “The Red Box”, p.88, Crimeline

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• CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Death Of A Friend, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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• I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

  Major Taylor

  Patience, Perseverance, Courage

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

  Desi Arnaz

  Father, Struggle, Years

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

  Colin Farrell

  Country, Sea, Survivor

  "Interview: Colin Farrell and Neil Jordan on Ondine". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

  Aristotle

  Daughter, Patience, Seems

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• The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Real, Soul, Quality

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.237, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
  My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Wheels, Compass

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.61

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• Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind--
  More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.

  George Crabbe

  Yield, Mind, Kind

  George Crabbe (1847). “The Tales and Miscellaneous Poems”, p.272

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

  Winston Churchill

  Mistake, Dwelling, People

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

  Samuel Witwer

  Smart, Liars, Needs

  "Sam Witwer on Darth Maul’s ‘Clone Wars’ Fate: ‘He’s Playing a Long Game’". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, www.hollywood.com.

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• The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

  John Dryden

  Christian, Pride, Honor

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• The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

  Terry Pratchett

  Boys, Games, Long

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