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advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account."
    Confucius
    "If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Charles Darwin
    "For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache."
    Drake
    "Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace."
    John Dryden
    "If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way."
    Erik Erikson
    "Patience and time do more than strength or passion."
    Jean De La Fontaine
    "The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven."
    Kahlil Gibran
    "By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect."
    Goethe
    "He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without."
    Goethe
    "It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
    Elbert Hubbard
    "He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
    Ben Jonson
    "There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway."
    Ralph Marston
    "There is [a] spiritual strength derived from the subjecting of the physical appetite to the will of the individual. "He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than king." If there were no other virtues in fasting but gaining strength of character, that alone would be sufficient justification for its universal acceptance."
    David McKay
    "There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as strength."
    Leo Muir
    "I do not attach much importance to America 's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power."
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    "The Enoch situation recalls another quotation, far more recent, from President Spencer W. Kimball in his great bicentennial address: "We commit vast resources to the fabrication of . . . ships, planes, missiles, fortifications and depend on them for deliverance. When threatened, we become anti-enemy instead of pro-kingdom of God. . . . What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him? . . . We must leave off the worship of modern-day idols and a reliance on the arm of flesh." Mr. Nixon has an answer to that one: Faith without strength is futile. What a revealing statement! Faith is the source of strength, the very power by which the worlds were created. To say it is helpless without military backing recalls an ancient saw: "I trust God but I feel better with money in the bank." In the spirit of the times we preach that to expect security without a four-man bodyguard is futile, when security is not to need a bodyguard; that charity without a guaranteed profit is futile, when charity means asking no profit; that free agency without strict supervision is futile, and so on. Mr. Nixon rejects Napoleon's dictum that in the end it is the spirit that always wins. Napoleon should know, but Nixon