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Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

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You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir.

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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.

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The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.

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If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.

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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

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