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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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God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.

Heal Fee Take The
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Happy Circumstances Combination
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Man Go Who Living
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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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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Life Change Only Can
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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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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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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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There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?

Afternoon Test Important Ready
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Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

Empty Sorrow Strenght Tomorrow
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If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Story Write Like Own
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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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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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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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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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To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

The People Forgot You
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

Big Event Experiences Get
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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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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Equal Opportunity Rich Invent
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Little Good World Overwhelm
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To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said,

Proper Time Lunch Rich
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If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Action Create Legacy Dream
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Pen Sword Obvious Encounter
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When you get hurt by the one you living for, pain can make you wanna love no more.

Hurt Pain Love Living
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When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time. If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Win the day!

Wake Mountain Distance Trip
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It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

Love Appreciate Rather Compensate
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Command Wealth Free Our
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Diploma Scar Medal Degree
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