Because of them, he worked all the harder in his thirties and forties to make himself, emotionally as well as materially, and go on to do the special work he longed for. Perseverance and forbearance b...
In 1779, Jefferson proposed, for his state of Virginia, a guarantee of equality for citizens of all beliefs, and nonbeliefs—meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, Jefferson wrote, t...
The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney identify four approaches to a suffering person.
No element of Mr. Lincoln’s character, declared his colleague Henry Whitney, was so marked, obvious and ingrained as his mysterious and profound melancholy. His law partner William Herndon said, His m...
Indeed, nothing less than the understanding of God’s earth was in flux. For centuries, the church had censored scientific ideas that were contrary to Christian doctrine. When censorship ended, new que...
How true it is that ‘God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,’ or in other words, that He renders the worst of human conditions tolerable, while He permits the best, to be nothing better than tolerable...
The suffering he had endured lent him clarity, discipline, and faith in hard times—perhaps especially in hard times.
Desiring a woman he was not free to approach, bound to a woman he had decided he didn’t love—facing all the while the crack-up of his political career—Lincoln now faced a direct challenge to the one a...
Suffering was not a punishment from beyond or a malevolent infestation of the soul. Like the earth turning on its axis or energy passing through a conductor, it was a part of the natural world, to be...
As decisively as Lincoln left the rural life, he left the Baptist church as well. In New Salem he became widely known as an infidel. He rejected eternal damnation, innate sin, the divinity of Jesus, a...
You say you are conservative—eminently conservative—while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new a...
You, she said, are the ugliest man I ever saw. Sadly, the man answered, Perhaps so, but I can’t help that. No, the woman allowed, but you might stay at home.
People expected too much, pushed themselves too hard, and therefore brought strains upon their minds that they were constitutionally incapable of withstanding.
As late as 1820, families made three quarters of all goods—food, clothing, tools—for their own use.
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