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We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.

Nothing comes unbidden; where the shadow is, there also is the substance.

It is an evil omen of the times that men have undertaken to calculate the mere material value of the Union.

We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

At first I hoped that the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not.

At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.

But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream.

The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world

Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.

Observe continually that all things exist in change; and keep this thought ever with you, that Nature loves nothing more than changing what things now are, and making others like them.

The thoughtful framers of our Constitution legislated for our country as they found it.

I have never had any trouble turning the page in the book of my life.

The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.

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.

The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.

All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.

The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.