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“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally.”
The verse treats wisdom as something worth actively seeking and asking for rather than assuming one already possesses enough.
Source note: James 1:5, King James Version.
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“Those things which a man cannot amend in himself or in others, he ought patiently to bear, until God shall otherwise ordain.”
The devotional advice separates attempted correction from patient endurance: when a fault cannot presently be changed, continued struggle to control it may need to give way to forbearance.
Source note: The Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapter XVI, “Of bearing with the faults of others,” William Benham translation, Project Gutenberg #1653. The chapter is explicitly Christian devotional teaching and continues by urging patience with others partly because each person also has faults that others must bear.
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“The readiness is all.”
Voice: Fictional character · Hamlet
The emphasis is not on controlling every outcome but on meeting what comes with preparedness and acceptance.
Source note: Act 5, Scene 2.
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“Holiness alone is undying peace.”
Allen contrasts lasting peace with temporary comfort or outward victory, then immediately connects the durable state he describes with self-control and an increasing orientation toward wisdom.
Source note: The Way of Peace, “The Realization of Perfect Peace,” Project Gutenberg #10740. The sentence follows Allen’s contrast between temporary peace from comfort or worldly victory and what he calls the enduring “Peace of Heaven”; the theological framework is retained rather than recast as clinical advice.
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“Some things are in our control and others not.”
The opening distinction of the Enchiridion asks people to separate what depends on their own judgment and action from what does not.
Source note: Classical work; English wording varies by translation.
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“That from which you are running is within you.”
Changing places cannot solve a conflict that is carried internally; the difficult work is changing judgment and character.
Source note: Letter 104 argues that travel cannot by itself cure inward restlessness.