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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Person Few Little Make
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There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.

Mind Fill Fear Desire
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Way I see it, everyone plays their own role in the world, and no role is more important than the other.

Play See Role Other
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Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

Home Earth Will Our
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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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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Come Half World Good
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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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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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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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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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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Art Understand Necessary Love
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There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

Rebel Direction Imitation Deep
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

People Responsible Mean Being
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Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

Education Force Arbitrary Culture
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest

Method Wisdom Reflection Imitation
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Act Will Heart Function
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Learn Love Deal Journey
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Ready Own Action Happiness
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It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

What Happy Think About
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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Mark Greatness Obsolete Bear
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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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Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

Sorry Same Apologize Funeral
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