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Show SENTIMENT AND SENSE. Forgiveness and a smile are the best revenge. Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. If you would create something you must be something. Fretting about tomorrow's troubles never drives them off. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. As the body is purified by water, so is the soul purified by truth. He that too much refines his delicacy will always endanger his quiet. Praise at the right time and in the right place is a wonderful helper. It is a fool who praises himself, and a madman who speaks ill of himself. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies. The actions of men are like the index of a book; they point out what is most agreeable in them. An ounce of heart is worth a ton of culture; the mightiest force in the world is heart force. One's self satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property, which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated. Like the bee gathering honey from the flowers, we should gather wisdom from all which the mind can light on. Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents him from indulging to excess. |