The world is wide, and I will ...

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
 Frances E. Willard

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
 Frances E. Willard
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.
 Frances E. Willard
God is action - let us be like God.
 Frances E. Willard