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Industry enables men to earn their living; it should also enable them to learn to live.

We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

There are a thousand other instances in which application has conquered all obstacles, and proved that nothing which the mind has set itself to endure is difficult.

Great men, I say, often rejoice at crosses of fortune just as brave soldiers do at wars.

A false and a childish sorrow is appeased with as false and as childish a revenge.

A wise man gives way to tears in some cases, and cannot avoid them in others.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet every body fools us out of it that has a mind to it.

The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy.

Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man.

We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

Other decent men are so alienated by such conduct that in their turn they abandon all effort to fight for reform, believing reformers to be either hypocrites or fools.

The great crisis must come, or no man has the chance to develop great qualities.

success--the real success--does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position

A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past.

In this life we get nothing save by effort.

If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy.

Little by little, through patience and long-suffering, thou shalt conquer by the help of God, rather than by violence and thine own strength of will.

Now dost thou resolve to avoid a fault, and within an hour thou behavest thyself as if thou hadst never resolved at all.

Alas, we have known Times call loudly enough for their great man; but not find him when they called!