"Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do."
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"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
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"It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression."
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"Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much"
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
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"Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light."
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"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
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"If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it."
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"A useless life is an early death."
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"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."
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"Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them."
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"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."
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"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
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"A person hears only what they understand."
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"Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."
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"People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public."
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"Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it."
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"Nothing is worse than active ignorance."
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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery."
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