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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

A snake lurks in the grass.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

A profession is the backbone of life.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.