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By Rutherford Birchard Hayes
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
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- Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Nineteenth President of the United States, Volume 2, 1922 · p. 160
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- Internet Archive (scan of the original edition, Columbus: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1922, edited by Charles Richard Williams)
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Hayes wrote this in his diary, published as Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, edited by Charles Richard Williams). He wrote it in his entry of Monday, December 16, 1861, at Camp Union in western Virginia, while serving as an officer in the Union army. He is thinking about a river crossing that was planned and then called off.