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"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power."
"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."
"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."
"Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions."
"One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call."
"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated."
"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."
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