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We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.

Sorrow purifies and deepens the soul, and the extremity of sorrow is the prelude to Truth.

Under our system there is a remedy for all mere political evils in the sound sense and sober judgment of the people.

In short, we ought to do justice in a kindly spirit to all nations and require justice from them in return.

After becoming citizens they are entitled, under the Constitution and laws, to be placed on a perfect equality with native-born citizens, and in this character they should ever be kindly recognized.

Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being.

The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.

Such a young person persistently believes that behind all suffering, behind sin and want, must lie redeeming magnanimity.

In spite of failures, cooperative schemes went on, some of the same men appearing in one after another with irrepressible optimism.

Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.

Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.

We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.

We will lead not merely by the example of our power but by the power of our example.

There are some days when we need a hand. There are other days when we're called on to lend one.

I will give my all in your service thinking not of power, but of possibilities.

The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.

Everything kept in joyful rhythmic motion in the pulses of Nature's big heart.

The collisions of party spirit which originate in speculative opinions or in different views of administrative policy are in their nature transitory.

Liberty and law have marched hand in hand.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.