“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
Good“No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.”
God“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
Good“Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.”
Money“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”
God“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.”
Work“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.”
God“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
Great“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
Friendship“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
Art“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”
Knowledge“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”
Inspirational“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
Inspirational“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”
Art“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.”
Men“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
Music“The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
Thankful“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”
Forgiveness“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
Imagination“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”
Death“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”
Best“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.”
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