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"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
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"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
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"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
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"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
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"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."
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"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
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"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."
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"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
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"The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way."
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"I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God."
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