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«Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.»
«Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.»
«Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.»
«Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.»
Author: Paul Engle | About: Poetry | Keywords: blooded, boned, n-th, nerved, nth, ordinary language
«Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.»
«After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.»
«If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'»
«A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.»
«Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.»
«I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.»

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