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01c. 1924 AD

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

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02c. 1924 AD

The highest result of education is tolerance

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03c. 1924 AD

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

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04c. 1924 AD

I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.

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05c. 1924 AD

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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06c. 1924 AD

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings.

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07c. 1924 AD

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

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08c. 1924 AD

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

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09c. 1924 AD

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

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10c. 1924 AD

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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11c. 1924 AD

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.

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12c. 1924 AD

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

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13c. 1924 AD

I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.

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14c. 1924 AD

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

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15c. 1924 AD

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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16c. 1924 AD

God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His work.

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17c. 1924 AD

The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.

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18c. 1924 AD

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

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19c. 1924 AD

Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land."

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20c. 1924 AD

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.

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21c. 1924 AD

I never fight except against difficulties.

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22c. 1924 AD

[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

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23c. 1924 AD

Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain life is not in vain.

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24c. 1924 AD

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship tense and anxious groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began only I was without compass or sounding line and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul and rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour.

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