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“The sea hates a coward.”

— Eugene O'Neill

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The only living life is in the past and future…the present is an interlude…strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness we are living!

— Eugene O'Neill

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Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

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The end of man is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

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