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Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things.

Had it not been for the persistent encouragement of Miss Sullivan, I think I should have given up trying to write altogether.

Every struggle is a victory.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way.

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

I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women.

To sleep is to strain and purify our emotions, to deposit the mud of life, to calm the fever of the soul

Courage returns as we gaze; when we see what has been, we doubt no more that it can be again.

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as it were redeemed.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.

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.

In spite of failures, cooperative schemes went on, some of the same men appearing in one after another with irrepressible optimism.

There are some days when we need a hand. There are other days when we're called on to lend one.

To admit that this picture has its shades is but to say that it is still the condition of men upon earth.

Fatigue yourself, but once, to utter exhaustion, and to the end of life you shall not recover the former vigour of your frame.

Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain bitter point, and the heart loses its life for ever.

A night's sleep, the sovereign remedy for the smaller vexations of life, had no effect on it.

At first I hoped that the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not.

The result was that I gradually, but completely, emerged from my habitual depression, and was never again subject to it.

Now to keep faithful to the pure Counsellor, and under trying Circumstances suffer Adversity for Righteousness Sake, in this there is a Reward.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

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.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.