A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.Lydia M. Child
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
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That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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