ss at home
that will always bubble up if you will but dig for it.--Marcus
Aurelius Antoninus.
To a friend's house the road is never long.--Danish Proverb.
Honest toil is holy service; faithful work is praise and prayer.
--Henry Van Dyke.
Give me the toiler's joy who has seen the sunlight burst on the
distant turrets in the land of his desire.--Muriel Strode.
You can buy a lot of happiness with a mighty small salary, but
fashionable happiness always costs just a little more than you're
making.--George Horace Lorimer.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only
edged tool that grows keener with constant use.--Washington Irving.
Where there is one man who squints with his eyes, there are a dozen
who squint with their brains.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.--Jonathan Swift.
What we have got to do is to keep up our spirits and be neighborly. We
shall come all right in the end, never fear.--Dickens.
Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be
miserable.--Thomas L. Masson.
Duty is the sublimest word in the English language.--Gen. Robert E.
Lee.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done
without hope.--Keller.
The activity and soundness of a man's actions will be determined by
the activity and soundness of his thoughts.--Beecher.
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve,
but the will to labor.--Bulwer Lytton.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already done.--Longfellow.
The great hope of society is individual character.--Channing.
Concentrate all your thought upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do
not burn until brought to a focus.--Alexander G. Bell.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation, for
it is better to be alone than in bad company.--George Washington.
The public school playground transposes many a boy from a public
liability to a public asset.--A. E. Winship.
Real coolness and self-possession are the indispensable accompaniments
of a great mind.--Dickens.
One of the crying needs of society is the revival of gentleness and of
a refined considerateness in judging others.--Newell D. Hillis.
In this world inclination to do things is of more importance than the
mere power.--Chapin.
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