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Not from space must I seek my dignity, but from the ruling of my thought.

The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not, as we feel in a thousand instances.

And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you.

Very many people, very many students, who otherwise would succeed, who would go through school creditably, graduating with honours, have failed to succeed because they became discouraged.

out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed

I will not say that I became discouraged, for as I now look back over my life I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish.

My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.

Your life will be wasted if you go away from here and have not learned that the greatest lesson of all is the lesson of brotherly love, of usefulness and of charity.

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased.

These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen War

War is the province of danger, and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior.

War is the province of uncertainty: three-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty.