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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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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.
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We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
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The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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Always take a job that is too big for you.
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
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