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Life Will Always Be To A Large Extent What We Ourselves Make It.

The Women Of The Poorer Classes Make Sacrifices, And Run Risks, And Bear Privations, And Exercise Patience And Kindness To A Degree That The World Never Knows Of, And Would Scarcely Believe Even If It Did Know.

The Highest Culture Is Not Obtained From The Teacher When At School Or College, So Much As By Our Ever Diligent Self-education When We Become Men.

Self-respect Is The Noblest Garment With Which A Man Can Clothe Himself, The Most Elevating Feeling With Which The Mind Can Be Inspired.

Courage Is By No Means Incompatible With Tenderness. On The Contrary, Gentleness And Tenderness Have Been Found To Characterize The Men, No Less Than The Women, Who Have Done The Most Courageous Deeds.