Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.
Necessity the mother of invention.
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.
If you prepare for old age old age comes sooner.
Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.
In the morning prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings in the evening it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.
God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.
Productive prayer requires earnestness not eloquence.
How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads and pray "Lord show me where I'm wrong"?
As the little boy said to the Sunday School teacher after being told the reason we are on Earth is to help others: "Then what are the others here for?"
If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.
'Tis a gift to be simple 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right We will be in the valley of love and delight.
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
There is a skeleton in every house.
The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out.
When asked how long I've worked here I replied "since the day they threatened to fire me."
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
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