“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

—  William Makepeace Thackeray , book The Luck of Barry Lyndon

The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Ch. 13.
Context: Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.

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