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If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it.

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

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.

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

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.