Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Learning Quotes, Events Quotes

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

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God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

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The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

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Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

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It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

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Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

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There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

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