Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.
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Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
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There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.
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I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends
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So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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