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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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A helping word to one in trouble is like a switch in a railroad track . . . an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
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A church debt is the devil's salary.
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
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You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
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Now comes the mystery.
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
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Love is the river of life in the world.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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