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Each time it is different.
Circumstances | Danger | Difficulty | Man | Means | Will | Danger |
If a man has a *right* to marry, some woman must have the duty of marrying him; if a man has a *right* to rest, some other person must have the duty of supporting him. If rights are confused thus with desires, the mass of men must feel always that some vast, intangible conspiracy thwarts their attainment of what they are told is their inalienable birthright.
Ideas | Order | Tradition | Will | Understand |
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
When the weather is bad as it was yesterday, everybody, almost everybody, feels cross and gloomy. Our thin linen tents, about like a fish seine, the deep mud, the irregular mails, the never to-be-seen paymasters, and "the rest of mankind," are growled about in "old-soldier" style. But a fine day like today has turned out brightens and cheers us all. We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.
Saint Bonaventure, born John of Fidanza Bonaventure
Three things are necessary to everyone regardless of status, sex, or age, i.e., truth of faith which brings understanding; love of Christ which brings compassion; endurance of hope which brings perseverance. No adult is in state of salvation unless he has faithful understanding in his mind, loving compassion in his heart, and enduring perseverance in his actions.
Business | Deceit | Evil | God | People | Public | Business | God |
Saint John of the Cross, born Juan de Yepes Álvarez NULL
How to being this journey: don’t pursue delights, and overcome temptations and difficulties; which equal the practice of self-knowledge.
Saint John of the Cross, born Juan de Yepes Álvarez NULL
When he is brought to nothing, the highest degree of humility, the spiritual union between his soul and God will be effected. The journey does not consist on recreations, experiences and spiritual feelings, but in the living, sensory and spiritual, exterior and interior death of the cross.
Blessings | Lord | Means | Service | Soul | Trials | Troubles | Will |
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Although it be with truth that you speak evil, this is also a crime.
Consequences | Death | Dread | Judgment |
As if religion was intended For nothing else but to be mended.
Consequences | Philosophy | Rule |
The worst of governments are always the most changeable, and cost the people dearest.
This is the attitude of the A. F. of L. on the color question. If a man or set of men array themselves for any cause against the interest of the workers their organizations have the right to say that their membership is barred. It should be at the wrong-doer against labor, it should not be a nationality or a race against whom the doors are barred.
Conspiracy | Effort | Improvement | Public | Purpose | Purpose | Right | Sentiment | Time |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
Hope |
The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Impression | People | Success | Wealth | Value |
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
Reflection | Smile |
Simón Bolívar, fully Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.
Abuse | Balance | Death | Desire | Government | Impulse | Individual | Justice | Little | Man | Order | People | Power | Struggle | System | Weakness | Will | Government |
Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.