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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.Frederick Douglass
"West India Emancipation" speech, 1857
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In a calm sea every man is a pilot.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 187. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_187
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Make the best of a bad bargain.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 67. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_67
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.William Shenstone