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“For many are called but few are chosen.”
“The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.”
“A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.”
“When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.”
“Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father which is in heaven.”
“Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin.”
“The difficulties hardships and trials of life the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly and teach self-reliance.”
“Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?”
“I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before second because although they took my purse they did not take my life third because although they took my all it was not much and fourth because ...”
“One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.”
“Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random write to one dine with one visit one or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand inspire a...”
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
“Or what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread will he give him a stone?”
“In this life we get only those things for which we hunt for which we strive and for which we are willing to sacrifice.”
“All things whatsoever ye wou'd that men should do to you do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
“Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.”
“The harvest truly is plenteous but the labourers are few.”
“If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.”
“A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.”
“When rogues fall out honest men get into their own.”
