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

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression.

It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse.

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.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

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

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

Man should make an art of thinking.

Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy.

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

Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.

From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.

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

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

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.