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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

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Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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Fear clogs; faith liberates.

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A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

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We are punished by our sins, not for them.

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The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

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Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

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Art is not a thing; it is a way.

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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

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Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

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