Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun.
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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. - from Fisherman's Luck
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