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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict

There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligence

When it is a question of God's almighty spirit, never say "I can't"

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman

No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.