It cannot be too…
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that makes men. – William Matthews (Image by Patrick Neufelder from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »

![IMAGE: Be faithful to thyself. [Be faithful to yourself.] / Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/prayer-1308663_640-200x133.jpg)
![IMAGE: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. [By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/eden-3733571_640-200x122.jpg)


![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)





