Frances Willard Short Quotes

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A reform often advances most rapidly by indirection.

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Vice is always in the active, virtue often in the passive.

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A woman's intellect is as worthy of cultivation as a man's.

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A teacher cannot be one thing and teach her children to be another.

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To think we have the ability to do a thing is almost to accomplish it.

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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

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I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

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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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Blessed are the inclusive for they shall be included... Cursed are the exclusive for they shall be excluded.

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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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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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To determine upon success is frequently success itself.... to a steadfast, consecrated, resolute soul there are no impossibilities.

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There is hardly a field of labor into which woman has not penetrated, and every day brings some new story of discovery and achievement.

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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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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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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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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 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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It is the trifles that make up the sum of existence, and every act of ours, however slight, has an influence, direct or indirect, over all our life. We make ourselves by our deeds.

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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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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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Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

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