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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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