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To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.

For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

While the thought held possession of her, she could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.

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.

But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author’s best education, and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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.

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.