Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
VirgilRead
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Interpretation
Face challenges boldly instead of succumbing to them.
This quote by Virgil encourages individuals to confront their difficulties with courage and determination rather than yielding to despair. It suggests that by boldly approaching misfortunes, one can navigate through them and ultimately find success or fortune on the other side.
In practice
In a motivational speech addressing students about facing life's challenges.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Endure the present, and watch for better things.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
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