People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
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If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.Tryon Edwards
Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them they give them power for good or evil they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and and ruin.
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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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