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We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.

We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.

The American over-tension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression are primarily social, and only secondarily physiological, phenomena.

Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy

The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.

Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

Take no thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Throw away, in the first place, all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well.

Let the day's work suffice; live for it, regardless of what the future has in store, believing that to-morrow should take thought for the things of itself.

Surely it is hardly fitting that the ruler should be baser than the ruled.

With such aids and an honest purpose to do whatever is right, I hope to execute diligently, impartially, and for the best interests of the country the manifold duties devolved upon me.

My life has a limit, but my knowledge is without limit.

The pure men of old slept without dreams, and waked without anxiety.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves.

His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor.

If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease.