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Do not fear ever to think.

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be.

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

...My thesis is this, I want you to believe. To believe what? To believe in things that you cannot.

you are noble, too, for you trust, and trust cannot be where there is a mean nature

knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.

And yet there is cause. There is always cause for everything.

What good are peasants without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it?

When, however, the conviction had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly, as quietly as I have ever done anything in my life, and began to think over what was best to be done.

a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.