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Tell over next all those you have known, one after the other: think how one buried his fellow, then lay dead himself, to be buried by a third.

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.

I had, and still have, determined perseverance, but I soon found that it was in vain to occupy my mind beyond a certain time.

An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when you lay down on the pillow at night, no matter who’s in our bed we all sleep alone.

Instead of denying these fears, declare them, say them out loud, admit them, give them the credit they deserve.

I’d subscribe to the belief that we’re all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway.

Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”

Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.

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

there is no surer or more necessary restraint on the violence of an unruly multitude, than the presence of some one whose character and bearing command respect

It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy.

True magnanimity consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment.

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price, and it is yours.

For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Only, my dear wife, let us both be patient at this calamity.

we ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine, that will save and preserve the life of the patient

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

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.