"Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped."

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Source : Jeremy Collier (1969). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: (1698-1709).”

Jeremy Collier

#Rivers Quotes #Mind Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.”
“Before Kady was born, I didn't think having a kid would be such a big deal. My attitude was simple: Babies are nice, play with them, put them in the closet until the next time.”
“I really like the idea of consumption tax, and most countries have a pretty serious consumption tax. It's called a value-added tax or a goods and services tax ... It's a sales tax. It doesn't tax labor, it doesn't tax savings or investment - it taxes consumption.”
“Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.”
“Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward-despite all of the progress around me. [...] But really, no complaints-it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You just have to keep working out how to travel light and stay portable.”
“True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.”
“I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.”
“We must all die. There's nothing terrible about death. But to live on after death, a soul, earthbound, a vampire--you don't wish any such fate for your beloved.”

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