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.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
It is better to rust out than wear out.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
