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impediments

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Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind. Margaret Fuller

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment. Ramana Maharshi

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. William Shakespeare

[M]isunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all general impediments to scientific literacy. Stephen Jay Gould

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Francis Bacon

It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. Charlotte Brontë

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