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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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