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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
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What a testing of character adversity is.
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Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
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