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"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."
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"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."
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"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."

"There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can."

"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."

"As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge."

"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."
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