Real friends are those who, when you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t think you’ve done a permanent job.
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He who seeks a friend without fault remains without one.
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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The secret of happy living is not doing what you like but to like what you do.
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Some minds are like concrete; thoroughly mixed and permanently set.
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Love is like the five loaves and two fishes. It doesn’t start to multiply until you give it away.
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Use the talents you possess; for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
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If we fill our hours with regrets of yesterday and with worries of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful.
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Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person; it is being the right person.
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The greatness of a person is not evidenced by his finding faults but by fixing them.
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It is better to suffer a wrong than to do a wrong.
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Our problem isn’t knowing what is right, it is doing it.
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Marrying is not marriage!
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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can’t.
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Are your troubles causing you to lose your religion or use your religion?
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Always wear clean underwear; Heaven forbid you should have an accident.
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It does not matter if you’re on the right track, you’ll still get run over if you don’t keep moving.
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Out of suffering come the strongest souls. God’s wounded often make his best soldiers.
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Nothing improves our prayer life faster than big trouble.
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A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
The author, Annie Walker Johnston (LHS Class of 1954) is a Leavenworth resident and wife of the late J.H. Johnston III, former Leavenworth Times publisher.
Copyright 2012 Leavenworth Times. Some rights reserved
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