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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Bring Long Long Time Past
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If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Ninety Ninety Percent People Percent
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

American Cycle Destiny Events
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Absence Acquainted Affliction Am
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Delay Everything Folly Hasten
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Anger Beasts Becomes Belongs
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Always Anxiety Goes Pleasure
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Fate Men Minds Only
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Time, the devourer of all things.
Time Devourer Things The
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Everything Comes Gradually Appointed
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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Indifferent Makes Men Please
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Ability Ambition Appetite Assert
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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Along Best Go How
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Away Gives Health Medicine
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Beginning Between Brutal Differences
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Am Ancient Ancient Times Born
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Allowing Authority Conflicting Force
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Achievement Arduous Attempt Difficult
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Brings Deed Good Good Deed
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Because Brief Brief Moment Change
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Found Free Men Pursue
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
First Harm Hospital May
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Among Bed English Excited
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Have Almost Europe Experience
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Back Death Development Every
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Did Form God His
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Ability Been Could Done
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

All The World Before Belief Choose
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Because Day Early Enough
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Become Come Contrary Courtesy
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Among Elements Good Health
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Against Best Humane Infection
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Because Grow Men Old
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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

About Any Box Came
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Always Because Before Die
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Experience Insight Life Moment
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Friendship Game Plays Pleasing
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Begin Grandiose Man Politics
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Always Everything Excuse Had
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Ashamed Deeds Frequently Good
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Being Better Constantly Desiring
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Accustomed Become Disguise Disguised
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Favors Of Further Gratitude
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Complains Everyone His Judgment
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Advice Bad Bad Example Example
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Detail Happened How How Many Times
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Actions Ashamed Best Could
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Amended Cannot Character Defect
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Also Enough Great Great Qualities
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Becomes Ceases Certainty Doubt
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