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I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
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I believe we should so act that we may draw nearer and more near the age when no man shall live at his ease while another suffers.
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Some one took it, and I was caught up and held close in the arms of her who had come to reveal all things to me, and, more than all things else, to love me.
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All the best of me belongs to her--there is not a talent, or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not been awakened by her loving touch.
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Their thoughtfulness has been more of a help and encouragement to me than they can ever know.
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It is my service to think how I can best fulfil the demands that each day makes upon me, and to rejoice that others can do what I cannot.
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My share in the work of the world may be limited; but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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My world is built of touch-sensations, devoid of physical colour and sound; but without colour and sound it breathes and throbs with life.
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Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality.