Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

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Many argue; not many converse.

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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

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