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Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

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Look twice before you leap.

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

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My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

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