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“Who broods over the past loses courage for the future. Bury deep your mistakes, your sins if need be, and write on the gravestone: ‘God being my helper I will begin anew and build better.’”

“The value of a thought cannot be told: it broadens the horizon, it lifts the heart and inspires the soul to worthy and vital aims. As a man thinks so is he; as a man wills, he may become by cultivating a special habit of thought.”

“The neglecting of a duty is next to the commission of a crime.”