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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

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Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

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Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

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Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: May 24th, 1878

Died: October 5th, 1969

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