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When I find my work particularly difficult and discouraging, she writes me letters that make me feel glad and brave; for she is one of those from whom we learn that one painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

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

I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness.

I, too, can work, and because I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all.

If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep.

Now I rejoice in the consciousness that I can think, act and attain heaven.

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.

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process.

Every struggle is a victory.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way.

The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.

Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.