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"We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain."
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"Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing."

"Hope strengthens desire and love strengthens confidence."

"Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope."
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"Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves."

"Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world."

"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force."

"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."

"A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion."

"Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities."

"The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset."

"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."

"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."
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