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As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

I can't die but once.

'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

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.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.