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"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
Money
"So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."
Thinking
"There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace."
War & Peace
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
Knowledge
"Would you live with ease? Do what you ought, not what you please."
Morality
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
Knowledge
"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
Talking
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
Money
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
Children
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
Motivation & Goals
"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
Wisdom
"For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail."
Success
"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other."
Experience
"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
Beauty
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Love
"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
Work
"I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did."
Religion
"Half a truth is often a great lie."
Truth & Lies
"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."
Life & Death
"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."
Age
"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."
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