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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.

No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.

the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress

Overlooking partial and temporary evils as inseparable from the practical operation of all human institutions, and looking only to the general result, every patriot has reason to be satisfied.

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.

And yet, in spite of the opposition encountered, and the obstacles opposed to their acquisition of knowledge and their accumulation of property, the progress made by colored women along these lines has never been surpassed by that of any people in the history of the world.

Do not fall into the entitlement trap of feeling you are a victim, you are not. Get over it and get on with it.

I have never had any trouble turning the page in the book of my life.

You are going to make mistakes — own them, make amends, and move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. Turn the page, get off the ride.

Nevertheless, he who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

All sincere and earnest search after truth, even where it fails to reach it, yet, often comes so near to it, that other minds more happily situated may be led, by pointing out its very limitations and errors, to obtain a larger view.

The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.

The ultimate effect of parasitism is always a paralysis of the will and an inability to compel oneself into any course of action for the moment unpleasurable and exhaustive.

Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

as the strings of the bow and lyre are alternately tightened and relaxed, so is it with the order of the world; in human affairs there is nothing pure and without alloy

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

A hopeless feeling descends on one and is hard to fight off.