I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will…

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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction...

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction...

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's...

People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more...

You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more...

Thankful that God's love is independent of me without being indifferent toward me.

Thankful that God's love is independent of me without being indifferent toward me.