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Responsibility is null when nobody knows who is responsible; nor, even when real, can it be divided without being weakened.

How mighty, as to the outward, is that Power by which they are borne down, and oppressed!

Business that is ready and practicable goes off with ease; but when it is too heavy for the bearer, they fall both together.

If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind; our best hours escape us, the worst are to come.

Misfortunes press hardest on those who are unacquainted with them: the yoke feels heavy to the tender neck.

Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.

This has become more difficult in a world where change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men.

Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.

Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.

Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.

Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

With tireless energy and eager zeal, colored women have, since their emancipation, been continuously prosecuting the work of educating and elevating their race, as though upon themselves alone devolved the accomplishment of this great task.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change

I grew tired and did more harm than good; so, if I met with a difficult point, for example, in algebra, instead of poring over it till I was bewildered, I left it, took my work or some amusing book, and resumed it when my mind was fresh.

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, SMILE! This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

it must be from one man that it receives its institutions at first, and upon one man that all similar reconstruction must depend

Success is jealous of scattered energies.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them

much of grief is blunted and relaxed when the body is permeated by calm, like the sea in fine weather

when people see their friends' houses on fire they put it out as quickly and energetically as they can, but when their souls are on fire they themselves bring fuel

the body is weighed down by the burden of what presses on it, but the soul often adds to the real load a burden of its own

Self-love is mainly to blame, making people fond of being first and aspiring in all matters, and insatiably desirous to engage in everything.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.