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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

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Our ideals are our better selves.

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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

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There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

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What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

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The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

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I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

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A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

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