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Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behooveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil. […]
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. La Rochefoucauld, François
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. Fiske, Minnie Maddern
Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon. Richter, Jean Paul
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion. Novalis
Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Montgomery, James
Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. Hamilton, Andrew
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. Byrnes, James F.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. Cowley, Abraham
Politics have no relation to morals. Machiavelli, Niccolo
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. Goethe, Johann Von
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Mittleman, Matthew
