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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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To determine upon success is frequently success itself.... to a steadfast, consecrated, resolute soul there are no impossibilities.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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The bicycle is the steed that never tires, and is 'mettlesome' in the fullest sense of the word. It is full of tricks and capers, and to hold his head steady and make him prance to suit you is no small accomplishment.
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I observed long ago that no class of human creatures get so little sympathy as those who carry in their life-luggage a bundle of nerves.
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The curse, canker, rust, and blight of the religious life, have been that we theorized instead of practiced, and that we antagonized those who differed from us as to our theories.
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As a temperance reformer I always felt a strong attraction toward the bicycle, because it is the vehicle of so much harmless pleasure, and because the skill required in handling it obliges those who mount to keep clear heads and steady hands.
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The world needs all the sunshine it can get and you have got to help make it.
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Alcoholic drinks introduce added friction into the machinery of body and mind; by their use the individual is handicapped in the race toward a higher and more perfect individuality, and what hinders one in this race hinders us all.
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A teacher cannot be one thing and teach her children to be another.
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Whatever diminishes the sense of superiority in men makes them more manly, brotherly, and pleasant to have about.
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Vice is always in the active, virtue often in the passive.
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If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.
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A reform often advances most rapidly by indirection.
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The capacity of the human mind to resist knowledge is nowhere more painfully illustrated than in the postulate laid down by average minds that home is always to be just what it is now — forgetting that in no two consecutive generations has it remained the same.
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I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.
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To think we have the ability to do a thing is almost to accomplish it.
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I do not wish to know what the country does for the rich, they can take care of themselves; but what it does for the poor determines the decency, not to say the civilization, of a government.
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Dreaming is the poorest of all grindstones on which to sharpen the wits. There is only one thing to do: have a fixed purpose and stick to it.
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Blessed are the inclusive for they shall be included... Cursed are the exclusive for they shall be excluded.
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Home can only come to its true dignity and power when the wife and mother is an equal partner in all that appertains to the sacred interests of the larger home of society and government.
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People who by nature and practice make a business of keeping other people down, whether through law or custom, or personal power, are among the world's monstrosities.
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The history of the reformer, whether man or woman, on any line of action, is but this: When he sees it all alone he is a fanatic; when a good many see it with him they are enthusiasts; when all see it he is a hero.
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And why should not women enter the ministry? The mother heart of God will never be known to the world until translated into speech by mother-hearted women.
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Frances Willard
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Born:
September 28, 1839
Died:
February 17, 1898
(aged 58)
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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
Known for:
How I learned to ride the bicycle
A wheel within a wheel (1895)
Let something good be said
A classic town (1891)
Writing out my heart
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