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The Constitution to which life was thus imparted contains within itself ample resources for its own preservation.

Life is a stern business in any case: why pretend that it is anything else?

Men may die, but the fabrics of our free institutions remain unshaken.

The wisdom of our fathers, foreseeing even the most dire possibilities, made sure that the Government should never be imperiled because of the uncertainty of human life.

Resolve to remain as strong, as determined and as highly enthused during the darkest night of adversity as you are during the sunniest day of prosperity.

Baffled, discountenanced, subdued, discredited, as the cause of justice and humanity is, it will be only the dearer to me.

Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen.

The task was likely to be long and strenuous, and an ordered mind and a clear programme were essential if we were to come through without loss of life.

That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things.

To admit failure at this stage was hard, but the facts had to be faced.

The student’s goal is Poise! Poise is Power.

The robbers of time are the past and the future.

The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

Now to keep faithful to the pure Counsellor, and under trying Circumstances suffer Adversity for Righteousness Sake, in this there is a Reward.

Do not, I beg you, dread those things which the immortal gods apply to our minds like spurs: misfortune is virtue's opportunity.

Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.

No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.

Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.

he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack

I grew tired and did more harm than good; so, if I met with a difficult point, for example, in algebra, instead of poring over it till I was bewildered, I left it, took my work or some amusing book, and resumed it when my mind was fresh.

Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.

You are going to make mistakes — own them, make amends, and move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. Turn the page, get off the ride.