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"I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause."
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"It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better."

"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

"None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn't stop anyone from trying to make the climb."

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith."

"If you failure, do not give up. Find new strength to climb the stairway to success."

"An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible."

"Often when we are on the path to success we come across obstacles that seem to be like mountains."

"Failure is only but a temporary phenomenon."

"In every situation, may we find the grace of endurance."

"A star will shine in the midst of darkness. A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt. A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt. A diamond will form in the midst of pressure. A champion will rise in the midst of hardship."
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"I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should."

"When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even such as you, who have home, friends, other admireres, everything to fill them. When such as I, who have no certain roof but the coffin-lid, and no friend in sickness or death but the hospital nurse, set our rotten hearts on any man, and let him fill the place that has been a blank through all our wretched lives, who can hope to cure us? Pity us, lady--pity us for having only one feeling of the woman left, and for having that turned, by a heavy judgment, from a comfort and a pride, into a new means of violence and suffering."

"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

"For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away."

"He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear."

"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
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