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"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
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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."
"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
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"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
"The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal."
"Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water's edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us a shove, and off we went! Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank. What joy! What exhilarating madness! For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine!"
"The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
"More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free."
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."
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