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Never despair, keep pushing on!
Without stones there is no arch.
I have not told half of what I saw.
I have not told the half of what I saw.
My heart beats as much as I can breathe.
The true sweetness of wine is one flavor
Conduct is more convincing than language.
Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.
Simply having children does not make mothers.
When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.
Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.
No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.
A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.
You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.
It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.
I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.
I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.
To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.
Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.
To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.
He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.
The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.
A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
The Secret's message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness.
Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.
I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.
While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.
May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.
Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.
To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.