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od.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.--Claudius. Evil is wrought by want of thought, as well as want of heart.--Hood. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.--Goldsmith. So use present pleasures that thou spoilest not future ones.--Seneca. A good manner springs from a good heart, and fine manners are the outcome of unselfish kindness.--Margaret E. Sangster. Reading and study are in no sense education, unless they may contribute to this end of making us feel kindly towards all creatures.--Ruskin. An hour in every day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits would, if properly employed, enable a person of ordinary capacity, to go far toward mastering a science.--Samuel Smiles. To live with a high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one does, but what one tries to do, that makes the soul strong and fit for noble career.--E. P. Tenney. He who loses money loses much; he who loses a friend loses more, but he who loses spirit loses all.--S. A. Nelson. If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.--Charles G. Gordon. Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. To be and keep so is not the gift of a happy nature alone, but it is strength and heroism.--Jules Michelet. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths.--Bailey. Remember that everybody's business in the social system is to be agreeable.--Dickens. In the lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail.--Bulwer Lytton. Be noble! and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.--Lowell. The cheerful live longest in years, and afterward in our regards. --Bovee. How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, is that fine sense which men call Courtesy!--James T. Fields. Make each goal when reached, a starting point for further quest. --Browning. The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.--Robert Louis Stevenson. God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.--Beecher. If you are acquainted with Happiness, introduce him to your neighbor. --Phillips Brooks. Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, live well; how long or short, permit to heaven.--Milton. The most wasted of all days is that on which one has no
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