Our fear of disaster

Our fear of disaster
Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur
  

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No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech
Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.
It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.
A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.
The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.
The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Evena sheet of paper has two sides.
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.