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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
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When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.
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To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
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Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
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We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world.
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I am only one; but still I am one. I may not be able to do everything, but still I can do something.
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Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen nor touched... but felt in the heart.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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