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 What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.  Till the day when I'll be going down that Long, long trail with you. And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done? Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax. When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky. There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. God may turn his ears from prattling prayers, or preaching prayers, but never from penitent, believing prayers. Your wealth is where your friends are. - Plautus Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. We are in the same boat I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours. 'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had been to night school. All men are born truthful, and die liars. Prevention is better than cure. - Erasmus Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. 
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