Fitness Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

“                          And I must bear   What is ordained with patience, being aware   Necessity doth front the universe   With an invincible gesture. Prometheus Bound. E.B. BROWNING.”

— John Raymond Howard

“I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting:…

— William Shakespeare

For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in…

— Edmund Spenser

“Thus thou must use to keep thyself to the first motions and apprehensions of things, as they present themselves outwardly; and add not unto…

— Marcus Aurelius

“I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Among all things that can be contemplated under the concavity of the heavens, nothing is seen that arouses the human spirit more, that ravishes…

— Pierre Boaistuau

“You and I cannot really expect to glide through life . . . naively petitioning, 'Lord, give me experience but not grief, a deeper…

— Neal maxwell

“O let my trembling soul be still, And wait thy wise, thy holy will! I cannot, Lord, thy purpose see, Yet all is well…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“How dost thou know that some entire, living, thinking thing may not be invisibly and uninterpenetratingly standing precisely where thou now standest; aye, and…

— Herman Melville

“But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Oh teach the mind t' aetherial heights to rise, And view familiar, in its native skies, Thy source of good; thy splendor to descry,…

— Anicius Boethuis

“O holy and blessed dame, the perpetuall comfort of humane kind, who by thy bounty and grace nourishest all the world, and hearest a…

— Lucius Apuleius