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