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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

If you think you can do it, you can.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.

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