My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
