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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after generation.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

They can conquer who believe they can.

They never raised a statue to a critic.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!

This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.


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