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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem. -
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
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It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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... the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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