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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.

J. M. Barrie / The Little White Bird

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Jane Addams / Newer Ideals of Peace

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint Exupery / The Little Prince

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

L. Frank Baum / The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Sunny ways, my friends, sunny ways. This is what positive politics can do.

Wilfrid Laurier / The Sunny Way Speech (1895)

Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow.

Frances Hodgson Burnett / The Secret Garden (1911)

Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.

L. M. Montgomery / Anne of Green Gables (1908)

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Tennyson / Ulysses (1833)

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / The Rainy Day (1842)

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul—and sings the tunes without the words—and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson / Poem 254

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

H. G. Wells / The Discovery of the Future

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.

Rudyard Kipling / If—

Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

G. K. Chesterton / Various attributed

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens / A Tale of Two Cities

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson / Various letters

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln / Gettysburg Address

I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.

Anne Frank / The Diary of a Young Girl

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank / The Diary of a Young Girl

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt / Various speeches

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass / Various speeches
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