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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
“Keep away from those who try to be little your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
“Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.”
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
“Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.”
“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ”
“Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”
“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
“But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.”
“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.”
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