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He has never been afraid to tackle the evils that other men think hopeless.
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Hoar admires a person's courage in confronting seemingly insurmountable challenges.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
I took a great interest in the founding of the famous Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and I was the first person named in its Act of Incorporation.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
I am afraid they have of late yielded for a time to one strong temptation and missed an opportunity for still greater glory, that never will come back.
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