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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
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Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
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Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
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