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For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow.

Let it be enough for faith, that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection.

The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful.

hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.

Better late than never.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

If you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

The spirit of liberty is the sovereign balm for every injury which our institutions may receive.

Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.

First comes the very extremity of distress, then follows unexpected relief.

The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.

Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.