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Lastly, and possibly most important, forests make this earth comfortable and beautiful. Next to the soil, they are the most useful and helpful of Nature's agencies.

The forest is an eternal mediator between winds and gravity in their never-ending struggle for the possession of the waters.

Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen.

Do not admire your clothes, and then you will not be angry with the thief.

Have you anything better or greater to see than the sun, the moon, the stars, the whole earth, the sea?

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.

Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.

See that you do nothing like a sheep; but if you do, in this case also the man is lost.

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

No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

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

At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.

That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things.

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.

When legislation touches freedom of thought and freedom of speech, such a tendency is a formidable enemy of the free spirit.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

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

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

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

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.

Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.