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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments.

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

There is no real exellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.