The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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