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A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.

Word Deed Full Man
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Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

Long Better Found Many
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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Peace Guard Secure Way
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Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Every Get With Pot
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The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit.

Duty Value Fruit Never
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

Shift Remember Pocket Better
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When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!

Much Your Yourself Done
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To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

Expect Good Food People
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Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.

Live Not What Would
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God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.

Heal Fee Take The
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He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.

Known Exact Time Spare
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When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.

Receive Return Favor Much
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“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Wise Rise Early Make
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Life, like a dramatic piece, should not only be conducted with regularity, but it should finish handsomely.

Life Not Only Should
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The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

Art Much Virtue Very
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Away Interest Head Purse
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Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.

Own Our Power Form
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Fool Have Honest Are
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After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

After Pair Found Half
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I would advise you to read with a pen in hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory.

Advise Hand Useful Best
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There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

Real Arrive Life Time
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Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Life Old Wise Late
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We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

Truth Soul Loud Have
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Success Much Overcome Life
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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

Self Latter Accept Face
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Every Toward Current Develop
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Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

Home Earth Will Our
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

Fierce Darkness Black Light
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What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

Drain Spirit Body What
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We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Inevitable Charge Attitude Convince
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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Attitude Choice Day Embrace
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Past Pioneer Future Prisoner
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Gone Intend End Need
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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Cry Smile Happen Over
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

Stand Gave Talent Hope
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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Comfortable Complete Situation Trouble
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A quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examined it, is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime.

Evil Effect Guilty Crime
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Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Pattern Reality Point Sense
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Victory Confidence Faliure Forward
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Sail Safe Habor Catch
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Lesson Live Understood Life
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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Illusion Property Defend Violence
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Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better.

Slow Good Fast Better
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

Respect Meet Sick Wish
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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Wealth Health Miracle Begin
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You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Positive Life Event Time
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The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Agenda Secret Success Daily
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Nature Strength Beauty Health
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Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Change Word Life Powerful
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Turn Life Potential Power
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