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I am a little klutzy and self-deprecating. I fit in with the rest of the losers.

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Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.

Carry, Certain, Littles, Make, Mind, Running
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Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.

Knowledge, Hands, Law, Hand, Penniless, Lamb

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

Character, Characters, Lying, Peril, Responsibility

Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them. " "Yes, they are good boys," I once heard a kind father say. "I talk to them very much, but do not like to beat my, children--the world will beat them. " It was a beautiful thought not elegantly expressed.

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No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

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Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

Argument, Give, Giving, Lightning, Oratory, Take
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