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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived…
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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
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"Skepticism", is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, "Well, what have we here?"
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''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
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A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
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A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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