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    A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

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    A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

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    A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

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    All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

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    All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

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    Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

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    A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

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    A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

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    A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

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    A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.

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    As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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    As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

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    Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

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    Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

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    Be heroes in an army of construction.

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    Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

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    Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

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    Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

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    Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

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    Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

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    Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

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    Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows

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    Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.

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    Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

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    Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

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    Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

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    Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

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    Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

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    College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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    Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

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    Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

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    Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.

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    Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

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    Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

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    Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

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    During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown.

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    Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.

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    Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

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    Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

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    Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

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    Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

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    Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

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    Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

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    Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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    Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

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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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    Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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    Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

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    Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

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    Fear: the best way out is through.