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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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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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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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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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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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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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
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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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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 do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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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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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 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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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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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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I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace
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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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Every modern war has had its root in exploitation
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The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
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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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A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
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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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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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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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