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

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, SMILE! This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

it must be from one man that it receives its institutions at first, and upon one man that all similar reconstruction must depend

Success is jealous of scattered energies.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

much of grief is blunted and relaxed when the body is permeated by calm, like the sea in fine weather

when people see their friends' houses on fire they put it out as quickly and energetically as they can, but when their souls are on fire they themselves bring fuel

Self-love is mainly to blame, making people fond of being first and aspiring in all matters, and insatiably desirous to engage in everything.

the body is weighed down by the burden of what presses on it, but the soul often adds to the real load a burden of its own

A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

Difficult and embarrassing questions meet us at the threshold of this subject.

Courage, combined with energy and perseverance, will overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable.

What is done in business must be well done; for it is better to accomplish perfectly a small amount of work, than to half-do ten times as much.

Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.

Misfortunes press hardest on those who are unacquainted with them: the yoke feels heavy to the tender neck.

Business that is ready and practicable goes off with ease; but when it is too heavy for the bearer, they fall both together.

If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind; our best hours escape us, the worst are to come.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us.

our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it is to-day, and to the generations yet unborn

If thou bear it unwillingly, thou makest a burden for thyself and greatly increaseth thy load, and yet thou must bear it.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.