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"Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies."
"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."
"The cure for grief is motion."
"Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers."
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
"The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner."
"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."
"Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world."
"Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death."
"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it"
"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment."
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."
"Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it."
"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time."
"Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity."
"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live."
"Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes."
"Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors"
"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."
"Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest."