A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The extraordinary thing about the oyster is when irritations get into his shell. When he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives . . . make a pearl.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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