I have always been looking for the noble qualities in human beings, and I have found them. There are great souls all along the highway of life, and there are great qualities even in the people who seem common and weak to us ordinarily.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist

Essay (1902), “A Worn Out Creed,” Heart of the New Thought
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