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Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.

Truth Speak The Always
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Would Dead Not Worth
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There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.

Happy Want Same Mean
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If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.

Active Young Want Poor
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Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous.”

Pursue Careful Person Fear
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Than One Learn Great
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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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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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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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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Being Look Youth Taught
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How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?

When You From How
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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Search Bottom But Nothing
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What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

Kind Care Break Nation
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear Wisdom Main Source
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There’s no formula. Keep busy with your work and your life. You can’t become a professional mourner. It doesn’t help you or others. Replay the good times. Be grateful for the years you had.

Become Keep Good Work
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There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Always Down Song Bad
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Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.

Beautiful Kind Pain Every
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If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy.

Easy Worth She Amazing
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You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.

Look Rate Waste Year
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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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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Success People Wrote Down
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If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.

Spend Life Waste About
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Happy Circumstances Combination
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Happiness God Peace Us
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Education Alone Faliure World
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People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.

Good Me Time Money
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Light Darkness Purpose Being
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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 seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Community Progress Forget Achievement
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Life Married Single Wife
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It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Being Human Love Possible
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Ability Genius Might Profound
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Bad Creates Good Many
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Crazy Truly Horrible Live
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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Change Solemly Spread Again
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