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In spite of failures, cooperative schemes went on, some of the same men appearing in one after another with irrepressible optimism.
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Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.
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Such a young person persistently believes that behind all suffering, behind sin and want, must lie redeeming magnanimity.
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The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.
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Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.