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We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone. — Frances Xavier Cabrini
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not… — Agnes Repplier
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon… — William Butler Yeats
How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it… — John Milton
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards… — John Keats
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the… — Henry Van Dyke
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement. — Hannah Whitall Smith
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And… — Abraham Lincoln
The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens… — Sun Tzu
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We… — Douglas MacArthur
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The… — Douglas MacArthur
Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have… — William A. Connelly
A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have… — Woodrow Wilson
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous… — Edmund Burke
It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me… — Stonewall Jackson
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing… — Mark Twain
The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition. — Edmund Burke
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your… — Rudyard Kipling
The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is… — Isadora Duncan
How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon,… — Amy Lowell

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