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We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths, In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

No pressure, no diamonds.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice, had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.