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All Quotes Collection
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
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"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
51
"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
32
"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
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"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
41
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."
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"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."
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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
60
"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
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"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
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"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
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"Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win."
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"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."
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"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."
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"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."
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""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
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"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
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"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
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"Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."
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"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."
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