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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

They who drink beer will think beer.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

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