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