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To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless; to rightly control and direct those forces is to be strong and powerful.

Give scrupulous attention to the duty of the present moment.

Those who are not prepared for the apprehension of a great purpose should fix the thoughts upon the faultless performance of their duty, no matter how insignificant their task may appear.

Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity

Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.

Responsibility is null when nobody knows who is responsible; nor, even when real, can it be divided without being weakened.

I’ve been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it, and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so.

She felt comforted at once by the sympathy and confidence given her.

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’s all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it’s not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

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

Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

This has become more difficult in a world where change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men.

Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.

Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

With tireless energy and eager zeal, colored women have, since their emancipation, been continuously prosecuting the work of educating and elevating their race, as though upon themselves alone devolved the accomplishment of this great task.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change

I grew tired and did more harm than good; so, if I met with a difficult point, for example, in algebra, instead of poring over it till I was bewildered, I left it, took my work or some amusing book, and resumed it when my mind was fresh.

It is good to enlarge one’s sorrows, since thus does enlargement come to our consciousness, and there, there alone do we truly feel that we live.