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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.

A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act.

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

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

During this night journey I put myself both in feeling and in fact in a blind man's place—the best lesson I ever had to develop deliberation and keenness of touch.

It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.

Will you not go back, and you will see clearer when you have laid aside fear?

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.

See that you do nothing like a sheep; but if you do, in this case also the man is lost.

Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.

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

His cheery optimism never failed, even when food was very short and the prospect of relief seemed remote.

Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.

The strength of our determination was about to be fully tested.

At times we were almost disposed to give up, and try to content ourselves with our wretched lot; at others, we were firm and unbending in our determination to go.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man