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"I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures."
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"Men are respectable only as they respect”
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"Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives."
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"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
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"Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy."
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"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."
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"Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art."
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"Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble."
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"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
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"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."
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