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If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it.

Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen.

If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.

Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

Man should make an art of thinking.

The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.

Liberty, as the inestimable birthright of every man, converted every object into an asserter of this right.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.