Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
From Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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