Frances E. Willard Quotes

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• Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
• Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for…
• Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed…
• We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future,…
• In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
• 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…
• 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…
• She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
• I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.
• 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…
• The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should…
• The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

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