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Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

During this night journey I put myself both in feeling and in fact in a blind man's place—the best lesson I ever had to develop deliberation and keenness of touch.

Wretch, you are carrying about a god with you, and you know it not.

Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen.

Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.

In my opinion no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist.

Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.

It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.

If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

There are some men who will do more than their share of work and who will attempt more than they are physically able to accomplish.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The task now was to secure the safety of the party, and to that I must bend my energies and mental power and apply every bit of knowledge that experience of the Antarctic had given me.

At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.

The task of keeping the galley fire alight was both difficult and strenuous, and it took his thoughts away from the chances of immediate dissolution.

The outlook was cheerless indeed, but much work had to be done and we could not yield to the desire to remain in the sleeping-bags.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression.

It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.