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Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

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If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little

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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

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The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

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It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

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