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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.…
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it…
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the…
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more…
— H. L. Mencken
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Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his…
— Terry Pratchett
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An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose…
— Jerry Thomas
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Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value…
— Jane Smiley
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing…
— Adam Smith
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If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving…
— Noam Chomsky
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When I set up my first restaurant, I was so inspired by Wolfgang Puck, who is also based in L.A. and is…
— Nobu Matsuhisa
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Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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