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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."

• "We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer."

• "To think of shadows is a serious thing."

• "To love beauty is to see light."

• "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."

• "Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime."

• "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."

• "One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

• "Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."

• "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

• "Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

• "Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

• "He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."

• "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."

• "A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."

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