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You hang around a barbershop long enough—sooner or later you will get a haircut.

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.

If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.

Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.

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?

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.

I am by Nature made for my own good; not for my own evil.

His cheery optimism never failed, even when food was very short and the prospect of relief seemed remote.

The demons of depression could find no foothold when he was around

The time for renewed action was coming, and though our situation was grave enough, we were facing the future hopefully.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights--then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.

I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women.

Optimism that does not count the cost is like a house builded on sand.

A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.

But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness.

I, too, can work, and because I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all.

It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Now I know hope and joy.