Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

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In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

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