Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be
a chippe of the read more

Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be
a chippe of the same block out of which you two were cutte?

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree read more

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.

They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.

What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behoves any of us
To find fault with the rest of us.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.