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General propositions do not decide concrete cases.

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.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.

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

Failure often leads a man to success by arousing his latent energy, by firing a dormant purpose, by awakening powers which were sleeping.

No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.

Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

Uncertainty gives fear a chance to get in its deadly work on the imagination and make cowards of us.

When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.

No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.

Success is jealous of scattered energies.

For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

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.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

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

Otherwise, my dear wife, we shall seem discontented at the birth of our little daughter, if we consider our position before her birth as more perfect.