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The evil cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence.

It is a well-established principle of law that every wrong has a remedy.

The press and even the pulpit, in the main either by silence or open apology, have condoned and encouraged this state of anarchy.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

This is a glorious region, and the air and life are intoxicating.

We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.

Bad local government is certainly a great evil, which ought to be prevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctities of the suffrage is more than an evil.

Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances.

As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths in the heart of man which the storms of sin and sorrow can never disturb.

Sorrow purifies and deepens the soul, and the extremity of sorrow is the prelude to Truth.

Whether one be fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that soul lies the cause of its own state or states, and never without.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.

To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless; to rightly control and direct those forces is to be strong and powerful.

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

Nothing comes unbidden; where the shadow is, there also is the substance.

Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.

Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.

To be able to do a thing, you must begin to do it, and keep on doing it until the thing is mastered.

Give scrupulous attention to the duty of the present moment.

If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.