The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. quoted by Og Mandino.Harriet Beecher Stowe
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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