I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best that we are made strong by what we overcome that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly that power waits upon him who earns it that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber.
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Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea I rave no more gainst time or fate, For lo my own shall come to me.John Burroughs
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
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