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Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.
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There are some days when we need a hand. There are other days when we're called on to lend one.
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The result was that I gradually, but completely, emerged from my habitual depression, and was never again subject to it.
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
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How many casualties and difficulties are there that we dread as insupportable mischiefs, which, upon farther thoughts, we find to be mercies and benefits?
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In time, the most stubborn grief will leave us, if in prudence we do not leave that first.
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Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.
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Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
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To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.
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Look back on these forebodings, not hastily but reluctantly made, and see how in every instance they have completely failed.
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And yet, in spite of the opposition encountered, and the obstacles opposed to their acquisition of knowledge and their accumulation of property, the progress made by colored women along these lines has never been surpassed by that of any people in the history of the world.
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And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.
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TIME is a Master Worker that heals the wounds of temporary defeat; equalizes the inequalities, and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing ‘impossible’ with time!
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When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, SMILE! This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.
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First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
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All sincere and earnest search after truth, even where it fails to reach it, yet, often comes so near to it, that other minds more happily situated may be led, by pointing out its very limitations and errors, to obtain a larger view.
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Failure often leads a man to success by arousing his latent energy, by firing a dormant purpose, by awakening powers which were sleeping.
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Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.
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No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.
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It also makes for contentedness, when things happen against our wish, not to overlook our many advantages and comforts, but by looking at both good and bad to feel that the good preponderate.