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Optimism that does not count the cost is like a house builded on sand.
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But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
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Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
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As I look back on my struggle to write that little story, it seems to me that I must have had a prophetic vision of the good that would come of the undertaking, or I should surely have failed.
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At the beginning I was only a little mass of possibilities. It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them.
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Joy deserted my heart, and for a long, long time I lived in doubt, anxiety and fear.