"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
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"All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss."
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
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"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
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"The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human."
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
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"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."
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"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."
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"Time is money."
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"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
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"Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
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"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
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"Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults."
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"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
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"I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America."
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"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."
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"He that cannot obey, cannot command."
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"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
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