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By Maya Angelou
Of all your attributes—your youth, your beauty, your wit, your kindnesses, your money—courage is indeed your greatest achievement. It is the greatest of all your virtues, for without courage you cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
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- Commencement Address (excerpts), Maya Angelou to the Wellesley College class of 1982, June 4, 1982
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- Wellesley College Archives. Used with permission, for non-commercial use only. Commercial use requires permission (MayaAngelou.com).
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From Maya Angelou's commencement address to the Wellesley College class of 1982, delivered on 4 June 1982. She is telling the graduates that courage is the virtue that makes the others possible.