"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."

Man, Men, Success, God

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"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

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"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The strong man is strongest when alone."

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". . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . ."

Realism

"Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?""Yes, sir.""A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?""Yes, sir.""Truly, Jane?""Most truly, sir."

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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."

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"I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman."

Suffering

"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."

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"Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror-glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said I was changed: my cheeks and lips were sodden white, my eyes were glassy, and my eyelids swollen and purple. On rejoining my companions, I knew they all looked at me - my heart seemed discovered to them: I believed myself self-betrayed. Hideously certain did it seem that the very youngest of the school must guess why and for whom I despaired."

Despair

"I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast."

Patience

"God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?"

Mortality

"I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!"

Grief

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."

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