Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.

Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.

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"They shall return unto me with their whole heart." "Ye shall search for me with all your heart." He makes a direct call to us for single-mindedness: a single-minded longing for Him -- no lesser aim will do; no desire to be good, no striving to measure up to some standard we have set for ourselves, to correct some failure we have been shown in our way of life. These may be temporarily necessary, but they will turn to dust and ashes, they will end in a grim dryness, unless at the back of them all is what He asks of us --a never-ending search for a real knowledge of Him, for a sense of His reality, a confidence in His companionship, a joy and delight in the very person of God Himself. It is for this that we must learn to long and long, till our prayers for it become not just a form of words, but a stretching out of our whole being to Him. ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn November 27, 1999 When God finished man He breathed into the human form the divine life, "and man became a living soul." Man is created to be a witness and likeness of God. God and man are so near to one another that it was possible for the Eternal Word to become Man without ceasing to be God, to re-ascend to the Highest without dehumanizing the Manhood which He had assumed; so near that the believer may say in the fullest meaning of the words, "I live, yet not I, but Christ".

We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen, how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

As the master so the valet.

The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it.

Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days.

Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.