Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

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Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

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We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable’s handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

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Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

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The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown can never come over again.

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A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

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Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

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There’s no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

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There is a great deal of human nature in man.

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There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

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Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

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