Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
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Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
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I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.
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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace
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