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"When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments."
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"Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days."
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"Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived."
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"The affliction in the flesh of soul is temporal compare to the eternal glory of the spirit."
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"A certain readiness to perish is not so very rare, but it is seldom that you meet men whose souls, steeled in the impenetrable armour of resolution, are ready to fight a losing battle to the last, the desire of peace waxes stronger as hope declines, till at last it conquers the very desire of life. Which of us here has not observed this, or maybe experienced something of that feeling in his own person - this extreme weariness of emotions, the vanity of effort, the yearning for rest?"
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"Sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted " stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it's still nice to beBukowski."
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"You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too."
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"And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?"
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"A life lived well, or poorly, uses our resources to such an extent that it can weaken many areas which were once strong. Simply from wear and tear, we may tire and need to be re-fortified. Seek ways to re-strengthen so that you may perform at higher levels and increase your endurance to enjoy a life you love."
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"Be faithful to God in your assignment and remember that in any case you will go through trials."
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"It's only life. We all get through it."
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"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
Friendship

"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
Freedom

"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."
Religion

"One man with courage is a majority."
Courage

"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
Politics

"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
Leadership

"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
Reason

"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
Peace

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Politics

"How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"
Gratitude
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