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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear.
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many people don't have that privilege.'
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.


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