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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. - [Advice] Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. - [Hope] Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable. - [Skepticism] The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact. - [Skepticism] True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself. - [Hope]
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