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Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
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You hang around a barbershop long enough—sooner or later you will get a haircut.
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Your life will never be a straight path.
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When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.
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If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.
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How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.
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Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.
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Chide me when I do anything that is not well, but then make haste to tell me that you have forgiven me, and that you are what I shall ever be, a faithful friend.
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If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.
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One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.
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in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.
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The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
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Each time you happen to me all over again.
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A boy of spirit may acquire a previous and practical experience of the world; and his playfellows may be the future friends of his heart or his interest.
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Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Rooseveltmisattributed·The Invincible Strategy, in The Supreme Conquest and Other Sermons Preached in America, by W. L. Watkinson·1907
Wrongly attributed
Adlai Stevenson used a version of this in his eulogy for Eleanor Roosevelt in 1962, and it has been hers ever since; it is also sold as Confucius and as an old Chinese proverb. It is neither. It is W. L. Watkinson, the English Methodist preacher, in a sermon called The Invincible Strategy, printed in 1907 -- and he presents it as a saying already in circulation rather than as his own coinage. What is certain is that this is the earliest printed appearance anybody has produced, and it predates Roosevelt's public life.
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Once I wished not to live, but the faculty of life seems to have sprung up in me again, from under the crushing foot of heavy grief.
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In our sorrow we see the rough side of the stuff; in our joys the smooth; and who shall say that when the taffeta is turned the most silk may not be in the sorrows?
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we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection
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Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.
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If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it.
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It has always seemed to me, during many years of active private practice, that the first and constant aim of the family physician should be to diffuse the sanitary knowledge which would enable parents to bring up healthy children.
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There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.
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The study of conditions will prove an education in itself and a stimulus to invention.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.