A Quote by William George Jordan

Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,—but she always pays.

William George Jordan

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William George Jordan
American - Essayist
March 6, 1864 - 1928

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