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"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."

"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."

"One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success."

"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding."

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants..."

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."

"To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny."

"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."

"The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich."

"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."

"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."

"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."

"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies."

"To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man."

"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."

"When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!"

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