Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty—he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

— Jane Porter Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

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