Aphorisms
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
Cunning is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
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