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“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.”
“We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.”
“The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”
“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”
“To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.”
“Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.”
“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”
“Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.”
“God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.”