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Daniel Webster. No thought is beautiful which is not just, and no thought can be just, that is not founded on truth.--Joseph Addison. The loss of self-respect is the only true beggary.--John Lancaster Spalding. The tactful person looks out for opportunities to be helpful, without being obtrusive.--Margaret E. Sangster. It is labor alone, backed by a good conscience, that keeps us healthy, happy and sane.--Godfrey Blount. Labor was truly said by the ancients to be the price which the gods set upon everything worth having.--Lord Avebury. Our daily duties are a part of our religious life just as much as our devotions are.--Beecher. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.--Shakespeare. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.--Thoreau. Energy and determination have done wonders many a time.--Dickens. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence: and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.--F. Bacon. Bread of flour is good: but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.--John Ruskin. What is wrong to-day won't be right to-morrow.--Dutch Proverb. We are only so far worthy of esteem as we know how to appreciate. --Goethe. We are grateful that abundant life lies waiting in the heart of winter, and there is no condition where life is not.--Isabel Goodhue. Wishing will bring things in the degree that it incites you to go after them.--Muriel Strode. It is impossible to estimate the power for good of a bright, glad shining face. Of all the lights you carry on your face Joy shines farthest out to sea.--Anonymous. No one in this world of ours ever became great by echoing the voice of another, repeating what that other has said.--J. C. Van Dyke. One fault mender equals twenty faultfinders.--Earl M. Pratt. Let us then, be what we are, speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.--Longfellow. There are some people whose smile, the sound of whose voice, whose very presence, seems like a ray of sunshine, to turn everything they touch into gold.--Lord Avebury. It is work which gives flavor to life. Mere existence without object and without effort is a poor thing. Idleness leads to languor, and languor to disgust.--Amiel. How poor are they who have only money to
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