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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
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''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
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''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
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