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• ""Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” -Joshua 1:9 The Lays of Rome "Then out spake brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate. He said, "To all men upon this Earth, Death cometh soon or late. And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the Ashes of his Fathers, and the Temples of his Gods?"" - Lord Macaulay, 1842 "Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but we can decide how we meet that end in order that we are remembered...as men." -Proximo Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. -William Ernest Henley, 1875 The Man in the Arena "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out where the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasims, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end, the triumph of high achievment, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 "Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." -Billy Graham "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -George Orwell "What man is a man who does not make the world better?" -Balian of Ibelin, 1190 AD "I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell." - Christopher Walken, SNL "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on that sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas, 1947 Idumea And am I born to die? To lay this body down And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown A land of deepest shade Unpierced by human thought The dreary regions of the dead Where all things are forgot Soon as from earth I go What will become of me? Eternal happiness or woe Must then my portion be Waked by the trumpet sound I from my grave shall rise And see the Judge with glory crowned And see the flaming skies -Charles Wesley, 1763 “At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.” Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning"