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The fewer the desires, the more peace.

Woodrow Wilson

At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Counseling Heat Judgment Light
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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God Himself Mortal President Remember
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Achievement Inspirational Mindset Right Yourself
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Himself Hood Man Rise Service Spiritual
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Himself Knowledge Subject
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Country Head
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Division End Interest Purpose Separate Stand Togetherness
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Consist Duty Ideal Name Role
I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion

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