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He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

Cast down your bucket where you are.

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

Mere intelligence is still not courage, for we often see the cleverest people devoid of resolution.

There are persons who possess the keenest perception for the most difficult problems, who are also not fearful of responsibility, and yet in cases of difficulty cannot come to a resolution.

My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood.

Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

Your life will never be a straight path.

Our attempts to banish this importunate duty will only make it return upon us again and again, and every time in a shape more unpleasant than the former.

If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.

Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

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.

To state the problem is to recall the truth that no single principle can answer all of life's complexities.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.

I had the grief of neglected chances of escape to brood over

At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint beam of hope, that flickered for a moment, and then vanished.

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path.