We have persistent objects, they're called files.
When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease. . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism. . . We advance.
The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?
Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.
A civilization is always judged in its decline.
We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.
The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.
In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.