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The student’s goal is Poise! Poise is Power.

If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Whats'ever 'appens to you--whats'ever--you'd be a princess all the same--an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different.

Sara hugged her close and tried to laugh. There was a sort of comfort in the warmth of the plump, childish body.

Everything was strange and silent and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.

As he sat gazing into the clear running of the water, Archibald Craven gradually felt his mind and body both grow quiet, as quiet as the valley itself.

He did not know how long he sat there or what was happening to him, but at last he moved as if he were awakening and he got up slowly and stood on the moss carpet, drawing a long, deep, soft breath and wondering at himself. Something seemed to have been unbound and released in him, very quietly.

Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.

Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy.

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights--then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.

Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good.

Let it be impressed upon all hearts that, beautiful as our fabric is, no earthly power or wisdom could ever reunite its broken fragments.

You have summoned me in my weakness; you must sustain me by your strength.

The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enable it to stand firm in storm as well as in sunshine.

To balance probabilities, where life and liberty hang on the result, requires steady nerves.

Brothers and sisters we were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers.

At times we were almost disposed to give up, and try to content ourselves with our wretched lot; at others, we were firm and unbending in our determination to go.

The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.

The strength of our determination was about to be fully tested.

For solitude is a virtue with us, as a sublime bent and bias to purity, which divines that in the contact of man and man--in society--it must be unavoidably impure.

One must not avoid one's tests, although they constitute perhaps the most dangerous game one can play, and are in the end tests made only before ourselves and before no other judge.

One must subject oneself to one's own tests that one is destined for independence and command, and do so at the right time.

A gloomy sensation of agonising, everlasting solitude and remoteness, took conscious form in his soul.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart