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"Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard."
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"It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!"
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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"To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words."
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"Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable."
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."
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"I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional."
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"He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.."
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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
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"Making money and being prosperous is a wonderful place to be, but not at the expense of your ethics, integrity, and reputation. It is simply not worth it. It nixes any chance of creating trusted working relationships."
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"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
Habit
"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."
Life
"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."
Life
"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."
Health
"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."
Man
"The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep."
Life
"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong."
Joy
"Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us."
Happiness
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
Courage
"To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall."
Courage
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