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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this day, for the hope with which we e...more

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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

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With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some...more

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Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probab...more

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a ...more

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I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting ...more

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Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?