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Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them...

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If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery .....

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I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and m...

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A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good ed...

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I have not yet begun to fight!

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

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John Paul Jones

Sailor

Born: 1747-07-06

Died: 1792-07-18

John Paul Jones (6 July 1747 – 18 July 1792) was a Scottish American sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. Although he made many friends and enemies among America's political elites, his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the American Navy" (an epithet he shares with John Barry). He later served in the Imperial Russian Navy, subsequently obtaining the rank of rear admiral.More