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| "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |  |
| "We are all born for love," said Morley. "It is the principle of existence, and its only end." | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | |
| " . . . as long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life." | Jules Verne | Journey to the Center of the Earth | |
| The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves; the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music; and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects. | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | |
| Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | |
| These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people--amongst whom your life is passed--that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire--for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| " . . . I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us." | Charles Dickens | The Haunted Man | |
| Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. | Charles Dickens | Master Humphrey's Clock | |
| There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives? We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of--to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true. | Charles Dickens | Wreck of the Golden Mary | |
| "Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them." | George Meredith | The Adventures of Harry Richmond | |
| We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. | Bram Stoker | Dracula | |
| "Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!" | Eleanor H. Porter | Pollyanna | |
| . . . his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its wings and never flying. | George Eliot | Middlemarch | |
| "To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained--who can say this is not greatness . . . " | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Virginians | |
| "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?" | George Eliot | Middlemarch | |
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. | John Milton | Paradise Lost | |
| "Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men." | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | |
| "Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | |
| "Axel," replied the Professor with perfect coolness, "our situation is almost desperate; but there are some chances of deliverance, and it is these that I am considering. If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved. Let us then be prepared to seize upon the smallest advantage." | Jules Verne | Journey to the Center of the Earth | |
