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In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.

Alexis Carrel

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Still
Succeed
Reverse
Must
Courage
Sickness
Every
Health
Acquire
Love
Joy
Prosperity
Effort
Rise
Faith
Sorrow
Fall
Continue
Stills
Capacity
Gradually

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