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Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

The present alone is true and actual; it is the only time which possesses full reality, and our existence lies in it exclusively.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Whatsoever thwarts, or puts me out of my way, brings death into my mind.

but to have the spleen, and to dream upon't, is a punishment I would not wish my greatest enemy

Always remember what is your own, and what belongs to another; and you will not be disturbed.

If he did not want something which is not in his power, how could he be anxious?

It is not possible that what is by nature free can be disturbed by anything else, or hindered by any other thing than by itself.

Why then are you anxious about that which belongs to others?

Will you not go back, and you will see clearer when you have laid aside fear?

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

The robbers of time are the past and the future.

As he sat gazing into the clear running of the water, Archibald Craven gradually felt his mind and body both grow quiet, as quiet as the valley itself.

Finally we must have courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.

The strong man who in the confidence of sturdy health courts the sternest activities of life and rejoices in the hardihood of constant labor may still have lurking near his vitals the unheeded disease that dooms him to sudden collapse.

Whether one be fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that soul lies the cause of its own state or states, and never without.

Conscious of my own deficiency, I cannot enter on these duties without great anxiety for the result.

Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.

It would be worth while to win, but she no longer thought life would be insupportable if she did not.

Whoever expects punishment already suffers it, and whoever has deserved it expects it.

Wherever the mind is perplexed, it is in an entire disorder, and domestic employments are not less troublesome for being less important.

Therefore, if he who rules a principality cannot recognize evils until they are upon him, he is not truly wise; and this insight is given to few.