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«Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.»

Author: Al Spalding | Keywords: All American, American, baseball, baseballs, combativeness, confidence, confidences, courage, dash, dashed, dashing, determination, determinations, discipline, Disciplining, eagerness, energy, enthusiasm, enthusiasms, exponent, exponents, performance, persistency, pluck, plucks, sagacity, spirit, spirited, spiriting, spirit up, success, vigor, vim, virility, with determination

«The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: abide, abide by, by fits and starts, fits, generosity, genuine, heroic, heroism, impulses, persistency, reconcile, resolved, wandering, weakly

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