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Wisdom grows in quiet places.
We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
Patience has tender feet.
Patience is moral elasticity.
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
If you learn from a loss you have not lost.
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
All things come to him who waits - even justice.
The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.
