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"As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
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"The remedy is worse than the disease."
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"Discipline is needed in our temperance."
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"Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future."
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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
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"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
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"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
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"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
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"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
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"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."
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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
Respect
"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash."
Friendship
"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
Family
"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
Poetry
"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."
Needs
"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."
Nature
"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."
Emotional
"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
Earth
"My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered."
Creativity
"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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