Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
The ornament of a house is the people who frequent it.
- Topic: Friendship, Reputation
- Location: Olympic National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.
No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.
No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
