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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

Be not defeated by the rain, Nor let the wind prove your better. Succumb not to the snows of winter. Nor be bested by the heat of summer.

Kenji Miyazawa / Ame ni mo makezu (雨ニモマケズ)

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Dogen / Shobogenzo

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Tales of a Wayside Inn

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt / Speech
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