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Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly; the chances are, it's holding you too.
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Every great decision creates ripples, like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
Nothing is so poor and melancholy as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
