“It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort! / Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!”
Source: The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), CHAPTER XXIII
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