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

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.

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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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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

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