Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.- Calvin Coolidge

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge

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The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood. – Richard Paul Evans

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May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- Walt Whitman

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No man ever listened himself out of a job. -Calvin Coolidge

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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

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Christmas, to me, is as many people as possible happy. – Tupac Shakur

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said. -Calvin Coolidge

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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

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