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		<title>Johnson, Samuel -- Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; and if he is content with [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; and if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.</p>
<br><b>Samuel Johnson</b> (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic<br>Essay (1753-11-27), <i>The Adventurer</i>, No. 111 
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		<title>Goethe, Johann von -- Faust: a Tragedy [eine Tragödie], Part 2, Act 5, sc. 7 &#8220;Mountain Gorges,&#8221; l. 11934ff [Angels] (1808-1829) [tr. Luke (1994)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This noble spirit saved alive Has foiled the Devil&#8217;s will! &#8220;He who strives on and lives to strive Can earn redemption still.&#8221; [Gerettet ist das edle Glied Der Geisterwelt vom Bösen, „Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, Den können wir erlösen.“] (Source (German)). The portion in quotation marks is not actually a quote from anything, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This noble spirit saved alive<br />
Has foiled the Devil&#8217;s will!<br />
&#8220;He who strives on and lives to strive<br />
Can earn redemption still.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>[Gerettet ist das edle Glied<br />
Der Geisterwelt vom Bösen,<br />
„Wer immer strebend sich bemüht,<br />
Den können wir erlösen.“]</em></p>
<br><b>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</b> (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist<br><i>Faust: a Tragedy [eine Tragödie]</i>, Part 2, Act 5, sc. 7 &#8220;Mountain Gorges,&#8221; l. 11934ff [Angels] (1808-1829) [tr. Luke (1994)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Faust_Part_Two/RjFqf5qwg5wC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22lives%20to%20strive%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2230/pg2230.html#:~:text=Gerettet%20ist%20das%20edle%20Glied%0A%C2%A0%C2%A0Der%20Geisterwelt%20vom%20B%C3%B6sen%2C%0A%C2%A0%C2%A0Wer%20immer%20strebend%20sich%20bem%C3%BCht%2C%0A%C2%A0%C2%A0Den%20k%C3%B6nnen%20wir%20erl%C3%B6sen.">Source (German)</a>). The portion in quotation marks is not actually a quote from anything, but Goethe's thesis being highlighted. Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Freed is the noble scion of<br>
The Spirit-world from evil.<br>
Him can we save that tireless strove<br>
Ever to higher level.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Goethe_s_Faust/EaEqAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22noble%20scion%22">Latham</a> (1790)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Rescued is the noble limb<br>
Of the spirit-world from the bad one:<br>
For he who toils and ever strives<br>
Him can we aye deliver.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Goethe_s_Faust_part_II_translated_from_t/CxBXAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22ever%20strives%22">Bernays</a> (1839)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Saved is the spirit kingdom's flower<br>
From evil and the grave.<br>
"Who strives with all his power,<br>
We are allowed to save."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Goethe_s_Faust/f9Edhh3LTe8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22who%20ever%20strives%22">Kaufmann</a> (1961)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Pure spirits' peer, from evil coil<br>
He was vouchsafed exemption;<br>
Whoever strives in ceaseless toil,<br>
Him we may grant redemption.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/fausttragedyback0000goet/page/302/mode/2up?q=%22whoever+strives%22">Arndt</a> (1976)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>He's saved from evil, the great soul,<br>
Confounding clever Satan:<br>
"Who strives, and keeps on striving still,<br>
For him there is redemption!"<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/fausttragedy0000goet/page/238/mode/2up?q=%22who+strives%22">Greenberg</a> (1998); in his <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Faust/7VHwAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22who%20strives%20and%20keeps%22">2004 revision</a>, the last line reads "For him there is salvation."]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>He’s escaped, this noble member<br>
Of the spirit world, from evil,<br>
Whoever strives, in his endeavour,<br>
We can rescue from the devil.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://goethe.holtof.com/faust/FaustIIActV.htm#:~:text=He%E2%80%99s%20escaped%2C%20this,from%20the%20devil.">Klein</a> (2003)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Russell, Dora -- The Religion of the Machine Age (1983)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.</p>
<br><b>Dora, Countess Russell</b> (1894-1986) British author, feminist, social activist [Dora Russell, née Black]<br><i>The Religion of the Machine Age</i> (1983) 
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		<title>Gaiman, Neil -- Blog entry (2011-12-31), &#8220;My New Year Wish&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You&#8217;re doing things you&#8217;ve never done before, and more importantly, you&#8217;re Doing Something. So that&#8217;s my wish for you, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="tab">I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.<br />
<span class="tab">Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You&#8217;re doing things you&#8217;ve never done before, and more importantly, you&#8217;re Doing Something.<br />
<span class="tab">So that&#8217;s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody&#8217;s ever made before. Don&#8217;t freeze, don&#8217;t stop, don&#8217;t worry that it isn&#8217;t good enough, or it isn&#8217;t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.<br />
<span class="tab">Whatever it is you&#8217;re scared of doing, Do it.<br />
<span class="tab">Make your mistakes, next year and forever.</p>
<br><b>Neil Gaiman</b> (b. 1960) British author, screenwriter, fabulist<br>Blog entry (2011-12-31), &#8220;My New Year Wish&#8221; 
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		<title>Young, Edward -- Poem (1742-11), &#8220;Night the 2nd: On Time, Death, and Friendship,&#8221; ll. 91-92, The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts, Vol. 1 (1744)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who does the best his circumstance allows<br />
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.</p>
<br><b>Edward Young</b> (1683-1765) English poet<br>Poem (1742-11), &#8220;Night the 2nd: On Time, Death, and Friendship,&#8221; ll. 91-92, <i>The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts</i>, Vol. 1 (1744) 
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		<title>Suzuki, Shunryu -- Lecture in Los Altos, California (1 Sep 1967)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.</p>
<br><b>Shunryū Suzuki</b> (1905-1971) Japanese Zen Buddhist master<br>Lecture in Los Altos, California (1 Sep 1967) 
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		<title>Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- De Senectute [Cato Maior; On Old Age], ch.  9 / sec. 27 (9.27) (44 BC) [ed. Hoyt (1882)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.] On failing strength in old age. (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: A man ought wele for to use in every age of that thyng that nature giveth [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might.</p>
<p><em>[Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.]</em></p>
<br><b>Marcus Tullius Cicero</b> (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher<br><i>De Senectute [Cato Maior; On Old Age]</i>, ch.  9 / sec. 27 (9.27) (44 BC) [ed. Hoyt (1882)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_Practical_Quotations/fkMBXg3KKDUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22whatever%20he%20does%20he%20should%20do%20with%20all%20his%20might%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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On failing strength in old age.<br><br>

(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0038%3Asection%3D27#:~:text=quod%20est%2C%20eo%20decet%20uti%20et%20quidquid%20agis1%20agere%20pro%20viribus.">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>A man ought wele for to use in every age of that thyng that nature giveth hym, and also it apperteyneth that thou doo alle thyngs aftir the mesure and aftir the quantyte of thyne owne propre strength and not to usurpe and take the unto gretter thyngs than thou maist not nor hast no power to execute.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A69111.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext#:~:text=A%20man%20ought,power%20to%20execute">Worcester/Worcester/Scrope</a> (1481)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For whatsoever is engraffed naturally in man, that is it fit and decent to use; and in all things that he taketh in hand to labour, and to do his diligent endeavour according to his strength.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cicerosbooksfri00harrgoog/page/n116/mode/2up?q=%22For+whatsoever+is+engraffed%22">Newton</a> (1569)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For that which is naturally ingraffed in a man, that it becommeth him to use, and to desire to do nothing above his strength.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A33149.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext#:~:text=for%20that%20which,above%20his%20strength.">Austin</a> (1648)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Then with that force content, which Nature gave,<br>
Nor am I now displeas'd with what I have.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B21163.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext#:~:text=Then%20with%20that,what%20I%20have.">Denham</a> (1669)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What strength and vigour, we have still remaining, ought to be preserv'd, by making the best use of them while we are able.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cicero_on_Old_Age_a_Dialogue/-DVcAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22what%20ftrength%20and%22">Hemming</a> (1716)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What a Man has, he ought to use; and whatever he does, to do it according to his Power.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cato_Major_Or_Marcus_Tullius_Cicero_s_Tr/dehhAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22what%20a%20man%20has%22">J. D.</a> (1744)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For it is our business only to make the best use we can of the powers granted us by nature, and whatever we take in hand, to do it with all our might.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/mtciceroscatomaj00cicerich/page/60/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater&q=%22it+is+our+bufinefs+only%22">Logan</a> (1750)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It is sufficient if we exert with spirit, upon every proper occasion, that degree of strength which still remains with us.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/oldageandfriends00ciceuoft/page/38/mode/2up?q=%22it+is+sufficient%22">Melmoth</a> (1773)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What is, that it becomes you to employ; and whatever you do, to do it according to the measure of your powers.<br>
[<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cicero_on_Old_Age_Literally_Translated_E/OKb5knapj7IC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22becomes%20you%20to%20employ%22">Cornish Bros.</a> ed. (1847)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What one has, that one ought to use; and whatever you do, you should do it with all your strength.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cicerosthreeboo00cice/page/228/mode/2up?q=%22what+one+has%22">Edmonds</a> (1874)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It is becoming to make use of what one has, and whatever you do, to do in proportion to your strength.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cicero_de_Senectute/Text#:~:text=It%20is%20becoming%20to%20make%20use%20of%20what%20one%20has%2C%20and%20whatever%20you%20do%2C%20to%20do%20in%20proportion%20to%20your%20strength.">Peabody</a> (1884)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You should use what you have, and whatever you may chance to be doing, do it with all your might.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2808/pg2808-images.html#link2H_4_0003:~:text=You%20should%20use%20what%20you%20have%2C%20and%20whatever%20you%20may%20chance%20to%20be%20doing%2C%20do%20it%20with%20all%20your%20might.">Shuckburgh</a> (1900)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What nature gives to man, that let him use:<br>
Still fit your work according to your strength.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cicero/2chEAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22what%20nature%20gives%22">Allison</a> (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Such strength as a man has he should use, and whatever he does should be done in proportion to his strength.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0039%3Asection%3D27#:~:text=Such%20strength%20as%20a%20man%20has%20he%20should%20use%2C%20and%20whatever%20he%20does%20should%20be%20done%20in%20proportion%20to%20his%20strength.">Falconer</a> (1923)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Use what you have: that is the right way; do what’s to be done in proportion as you have the strength for it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/onoldageonfriend0000unse/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22use+what%22">Copley</a> (1967)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Whatever strength you have at any given moment, you should use; and whatever you do, you should do it within the limitations of that strength.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/redflareciceroso0000cice/page/22/mode/2up?q=%22whatever+strength%22">Cobbold</a> (2012)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You use what you have and gauge your activities accordingly.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_To_Be_Old/OREcBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22use%20what%20you%20have%22">Gerberding</a> (2014)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You see, It’s a lot better to proceed<br>
With your own strength and anything you do<br>
According to your strength you should pursue.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.crtpesaro.it/Materiali/Latino/De%20Senectute.php#:~:text=You%20see%2C%20It%E2%80%99s%20a%20lot%20better%20to%20proceed%0AWith%20your%20own%20strength%20and%20anything%20you%20do%0AAccording%20to%20your%20strength%20you%20should%20pursue">Bozzi</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>
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		<title>Clemenceau, Georges -- Conversation wth Jean Martet (1 Jun 1928)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed &#8212; I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself. In J. Martet, Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet, ch. 30 (1930) [tr. M. Waldman]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed &#8212; I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.</p>
<br><b>Georges Clemenceau</b> (1841–1929) French statesman, physician, journalist<br>Conversation wth Jean Martet (1 Jun 1928) 
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In J. Martet, <em>Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet</em>, ch. 30 (1930) [tr. M. Waldman]
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		<title>Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Essay (1878-04), &#8220;Æs Triplex,&#8221; Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. It is not only in finished undertakings that we ought to honour useful labour.</p>
<br><b>Robert Louis Stevenson</b> (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet<br>Essay (1878-04), &#8220;Æs Triplex,&#8221; <i>Cornhill Magazine</i>, Vol. 37 
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<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Virginibus_Puerisque_and_Other_Papers/%C3%86s_Triplex#:~:text=By%20all%20means%20begin%20your%20folio%3B%20even%20if%20the%20doctor%20does%20not%20give%20you%20a%20year%2C%20even%20if%20he%20hesitates%20about%20a%20month%2C%20make%20one%20brave%20push%20and%20see%20what%20can%20be%20accomplished%20in%20a%20week.%20It%20is%20not%20only%20in%20finished%20undertakings%20that%20we%20ought%20to%20honour%20useful%20labour.">Collected</a> in <i>Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers</i> (1881).

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		<title>Lowell, James Russell -- “For an Autograph,” st. 5 (1868)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not failure, but low aim, is crime.</p>
<br><b>James Russell Lowell</b> (1819-1891) American diplomat, essayist, poet<br>“For an Autograph,” st. 5 (1868) 
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		<title>Roosevelt, Theodore -- Speech (1899-04-10), &#8220;The Strenuous Life,&#8221; Hamilton Club, Chicago</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.</p>
<br><b>Theodore Roosevelt</b> (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)<br>Speech (1899-04-10), &#8220;The Strenuous Life,&#8221; Hamilton Club, Chicago 
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		<title>Chesterfield (Lord) -- Letter to his son, #226 (24 May 1750)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. </p>
<br><b>Lord Chesterfield</b> (1694-1773) English statesman, wit [Philip Dormer Stanhope]<br>Letter to his son, #226 (24 May 1750) 
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