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The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.
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The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.
If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep.
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Every struggle is a victory.
For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way.
As I look back on my struggle to write that little story, it seems to me that I must have had a prophetic vision of the good that would come of the undertaking, or I should surely have failed.
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process.
Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.