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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

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

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Such is man, and so must he be understood by those who would lead him, even to his own best interests.

Every evening he should examine his heart as to what he has done to see whether he has gained or lost in his spiritual capital.

If you are a brave man you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to prove their bravery.

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

Somehow in judging polar life you must discount compulsory endurance; and find out what a man can shirk, remembering always that it is a sledging life which is the hardest test.

What pulled Scott through was character, sheer good grain, which ran over and under and through his weaker self and clamped it together.

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

I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it

While my care was employ'd in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.