With Ills Unending Strives The

We Cannot Choose Our External Circumstances, But We Can Always Choose How We Respond To Them.

Be Not Diverted From Your Duty By Any Idle Reflections The Silly World May Make Upon You, For Their Censures Are Not In Your Power And Should Not Be At All Your Concerns.

Cowardice, The Dread Of What Will Happen.

Neither Should A Ship Rely On One Small Anchor, Nor Should Life Rest On A Single Hope.

It Is Our Attitude Toward Events, Not Events Themselves, Which We Can Control. Nothing Is By Its Own Nature Calamitous -- Even Death Is Terrible Only If We Fear It.