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It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

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Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

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It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

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The principle part of faith is patience.

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Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

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The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

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Attitudes are more important than facts.

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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

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There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

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We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

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To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

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Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

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It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

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For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

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