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A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disapp...  
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.  
Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcom...  
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy cl...  
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so t...  
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Th...  
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experien...  
College isn't the place to go for ideas.  
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's ...   Death
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, wh...  
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the...  
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, ...  
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the unders...  
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty t...  
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perha...  
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate...  
It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and...  
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.  
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers...  
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have not...  
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is y...  
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If...   Religion
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and...   Religion
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.  
Knowledge is love and light and vision.  
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.  
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for o...  
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.  
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of ...  
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragr...  
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of e...  
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It ...  
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold...  
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work make...  
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in ...  
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that h...  
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an ...  
Now is the time for all good men to come to.  
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or...  
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.  
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done w...  
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no reme...  
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do...  
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles...  
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even...  
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.  
The highest result of education is tolerance.  
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rew...  
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes,...  
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome th...   Nature
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effo...  
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as we...  
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of r...  
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.  
We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy fo...  
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.  
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply b...  
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully ...  
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so...  
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought...  
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done...