Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

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Many argue; not many converse.

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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

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...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

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If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women

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We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

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