We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Art is not a thing it is a way.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Live truth instead of professing it.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.