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

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.

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.

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.”

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

If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.

Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.

I am by Nature made for my own good; not for my own evil.

Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

Optimism that does not count the cost is like a house builded on sand.

if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

It also makes for contentedness, when things happen against our wish, not to overlook our many advantages and comforts, but by looking at both good and bad to feel that the good preponderate.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of nature. If I cannot achieve it, at least I can think it.

almost any man can do a great deal, if he will, by getting the utmost possible service out of the qualities that he actually possesses

It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

The brain can be trained, as the hand and eye can be trained; it can be made as obedient as a sporting dog, and by similar methods.

The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.