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I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.George Melton
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!Lewis Carroll
For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?Lewis Carroll
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.Marie Curie
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.Martha Grimes, from Hotel Paradise, a novel
He appears to have been weened on a pickle.Alice Roosevelt Longfellow, about Calvin Coolidge
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.E. B. White