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Life is a navigation; we are perpetually wallowing and dashing one against another; sometimes we suffer shipwreck, but we are always in danger and in expectation of it.

Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing.

Where the mind is tinctured with philosophy, there is no place for grief, anxiety, or superfluous vexations.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy

What doth care about future events bring thee, save sorrow upon sorrow?

From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety.

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power.

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

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.

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.

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

Nothing is so insupportable to man as to be completely at rest, without passion, without business, without diversion, without study.

all the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own chamber

The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.

In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel.

Oh, if our friends would but put off anatomising one till after one was safely dead, and call to mind that, previously, we have nerves to be agonised and morbid brains to be driven mad!

The movement of the floes was beyond all human control, and there was nothing to be gained by allowing one's mind to struggle with the problems of the future, though it was hard to avoid anxiety at times.