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We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us, as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns

What cannot be avoided, t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Whatever is-is best.

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

When necessity speaks, it demands.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. See quote detail

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Who except the gods can live time through forever without any pain?

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.


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