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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Be and not seem.
We become what we think about all day long.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
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So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
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