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/ page 593 of 1205 /The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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There is no wealth but life.
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
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Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.
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