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This it must be; and there is no means of escaping from tribulation and sorrow, except to bear them patiently.

war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master, that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes

Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother.

If I felt that there is to be sole responsibility in the Executive for the America of tomorrow I should shrink from the burden.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

If you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.

Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility.

First comes the very extremity of distress, then follows unexpected relief.

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.

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

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

There is no doubt that a blizzard has a bewildering and numbing effect upon the brain of any one exposed to it.

By space the Universe encompasses and swallows me as an atom, by thought I encompass it.

Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult.

Life is not only short, but uncertain, and art is not only long, but absorbing.

On this bit of the wild world's stage are theatrical lightning changes of scenes—changes that on most mountains would require ten thousand years or more. It is a place of strange and fleeting landscapes; the earth is ever changing like the sky.

Nevertheless the person in charge never seems to look the impossibility in the face.

The optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter; for he knows his neighbor will be hindered by his failure to keep in line.

The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.

Nowhere will you see the majestic operations of nature more clearly revealed beside the frailest, most gentle and peaceful things.

How mighty, as to the outward, is that Power by which they are borne down, and oppressed!

The first and last lesson of the useful arts is, that Nature tyrannizes over our works.