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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?

Wretch, you are carrying about a god with you, and you know it not.

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

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

If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.

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

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

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

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.

The robbers of time are the past and the future.

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

If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Whats'ever 'appens to you--whats'ever--you'd be a princess all the same--an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different.

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.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart

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.

Fully impressed with the gravity of the duties that confront me and mindful of my weakness, I should be appalled if it were my lot to bear unaided the responsibilities which await me.

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.

I accept with humility the honor which the American people have conferred upon me.

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

If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep.