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She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.

And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

War is the province of danger, and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior.

War is the province of uncertainty: three-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty.

You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!

I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me—for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

As death, therefore, is hanging over our head every hour, how can a man ever be unshaken in soul if he fears it?

And when you fall throughout life—and maybe even tonight after a few too many glasses of champagne—fall forward.

I want to fall… forward. At least I figure that way I’ll see what I’m about to hit.

If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything, except my faith.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

The point is, every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed. But do you have guts to fail?

I find I want courage to marry where I do not like

For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Perhaps when all is written courageously, I shall have no courage left to publish it.