Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authorsFabiola hospital association, Oakland, Calif.
Philosophy
Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors
Fabiola hospital association, Oakland, Calif.
Quotations, English
It is my custom every night to run all over the words and actions of
the past day; for why should I fear the sight of my errors when I can
admonish and forgive myself? I was a little too hot in such a dispute:
my opinion might have been as well spared, for it gave offense, and did
no good at all. The thing was true; but all truths are not to be spoken
at all times.--_Seneca._
Also, I think that good must come of good,
And ill of evil--surely--unto all--
In every place and time--seeing sweet fruit
Groweth from wholesome roots, and bitter things
From poison stocks; yea, seeing, too, how spite
Breeds hate, and kindness, friends, and patience, peace.
--_Edwin Arnold._
If we would listen intently, we might hear the divine voice within,
assuring us that God is our life; that spirit is the only substantial
entity and that love is the only law.--_Henry Wood._
Let us grow out of the idea that because we do some one a favor or
render him a service, that he is thereby under some transcendent
obligation to us. Let us recognize the truth--that it is we who are
obliged if he will permit us to do him a favor.--_Lilian Whiting._
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to
the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.--_Abraham Lincoln._
Compass happiness, since happiness alone is victory. What you make of
life, it will be to you. Take it up bravely, bear it on joyfully, lay
it down triumphantly.--_Gail Hamilton._
Those things that are not practicable are not desirable. There is
nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us
the means to accomplish. If we cry like children for the moon, like
children we must cry on.--_Burke._
I feel the earth move sunward,
I join the great march onward,
And take by faith while living
My freehold of thanksgiving.
--_John G. Whittier._
Howe’er it be, it seems to me
’Tis only noble to be good;
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
--_Tennyson._
Pin thy faith to no man’s sleeve; hast thou not two eyes of thine
own?--_Carlyle._
Do your best loyally and cheerfully, and suffer yourself to feel no
anxiety nor fear. Your times are in God’s hands. He has assigned you
your place: He will direct your paths; He will accept your efforts, if
they be faithful.--_Canon Farrar._
When we cease to look upon any experience as too hard, we have made a
decided step in wise adjustment to life.--_H. W. Dresser._
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts, but as
soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our
own.--_Emerson._
The choir invisible! Who are members of it, if not all those who in any
way are doing the day’s work, whatever it may be, as well as they know
how; who are trying to make the world happier and pleasanter for those
to whom their lives are naturally bound.--_John White Chadwick._
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