“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.