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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Tryon Edwards
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
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Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
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He that never changes his opinions, and never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
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