“A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.”

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“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”

“In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.”

“Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.”

“Without the reader there would be no writer.”

“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.”

“Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that trusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.”

“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.”

“Only the idea of God gives me the confidence that morality will become reality on earth. And because I cannot live without this confidence, I cannot live without God.”