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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People

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