The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

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If you have never failed you have never lived.

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

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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

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