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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

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Art is not a thing it is a way.

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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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Fear clogs faith liberates.

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Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

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The thing we fear we bring to pass.

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Fear clogs faith liberates.

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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

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Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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Men are only as great as they are kind.

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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

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Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

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The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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Men are only as great as they are kind.

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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

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We are punished by our sins, not for them.

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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

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The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

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Live truth instead of professing it.

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Elbert Hubbard

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