Quotes of Mark Rutherford - somelinesforyou

“ The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love, less blessed is hatred, but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The successful man is he who, when he sees that no further certainty is attainable, promptly decides on the most probable side, as if he were completely sure it was right. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The successful man is he who, when he sees that no further certainty is attainable, promptly decides on the most probable side, as if he were completely sure it was right. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The successful man is he who, when he sees that no further certainty is attainable, promptly decides on the most probable side, as if he were completely sure it was right. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ”

- Mark Rutherford

“ It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love. ”

- Mark Rutherford
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