It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.

We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty.
BEN ROBERTSON

Beauty Freedom Powerful Work
We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.
BEN ROBERTSON

Attitude Day Denied Open Sunshine
It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
BEN ROBERTSON

Defeat Smother Year Years
It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home–perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.
BEN ROBERTSON

Comfort Home People
It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return?
BEN ROBERTSON

Attitude Powerful Sunshine
We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?
BEN ROBERTSON

Ask Everything Told

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