All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.
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A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
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I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nations flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the nation that sets it forth.
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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