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 Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.  Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name. Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. You know, my children, that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal, which is modified by that of the whole. Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice. There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke. Respect is love in plain clothes. A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. - Stendhal God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education. I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend. No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance. In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil, while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments. Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief. The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. True happiness consists in making others happy. 
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