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"Now is the time for all good men to come to."

"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

"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 toward our distant goal."

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

"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."

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."

"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

"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."

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

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