Give me insight into today and...

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Finish each day before you beg...

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

So much of our time is spent i...

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Life is not so short but that ...

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Time dissipates to shining eth...

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, ...

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Belief consists in accepting t...

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

The eloquent man is he who is ...

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

It is in rugged crises, in unb...

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

To get up each morning with th...

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

When we have arrived at the qu...

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Your genuine action will expla...

Your genuine action will explain itself, and
will explain your other genuine actions.
Your conformity explains nothing.

Luck is just another word for ...

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

The wise man in the storm pray...

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.

Insist on yourself. Never imit...

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

You cannot do wrong without su...

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Our chief want in life, is,

Our chief want in life, is,
someone who shall make us do what we can.
This is the service of a friend.
With him we are easily great.

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It is one of the biggest bless...

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

If two or three persons should...

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

We change whether we like it o...

We change whether we like it or not.