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Quote of the day 04/13/26

From Robert Frost: “The best way out is always through.”

From William Faulkner: “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

From Ovid: “Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.”

From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”

From Mark Twain: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”

From Horace: “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”

From Plutarch: “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

From Benjamin Franklin: “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

From Friedrich Nietzsche: “There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.”