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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. — Paul Sweeney”
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“Service can never become slavery to one who loves. — J.L. Masse”
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“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good. — Helen Keller”
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“So much of our life is spent preparing for the next day, the next year, the next promotion, the next generation, that we may forget that this moment, which will not come again, is when we live. — Thomas Harris”
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“Soldiers win battles and generals get the credit. — Napoleon Bonaparte”
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“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. — Ruth E. Renkel”
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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. — H. Jackson Brown”
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“Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best. — John Wooden”
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“Thanks to the miles of superhighways under construction, America will soon be a wonderful place to drive—if you don’t want to stop. — Fletcher Knebel”
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“That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles. — Christian Freidrich Hebbel, 18131863”
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“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. — Abraham Lincoln”
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“The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit. — D.L. Moody”
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“The covetous man is ever in want. — Horace (658 BC), Epistles, I, ii, 1. 62”
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“The Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. — Chip Heath”
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“The dead take to the grave, clutched in their hands, only what they have given away. — DeWitt Wallace”
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“The depth of our joy is in direct proportion to what we’ve suffered. — Robert McKee”
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“The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. — Bishop Gerald Burrill”
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“The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her. — D.L. Moody”
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“The discontented man finds no easy chair. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like him. — Socrates”
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“The falling drops at last will wear the stone. — Lucretius”
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“The fewer the words, the better prayer. — Martin Luther”
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“The foolish and the dead never change their opinions. — James Russell Lowell”
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“The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but its unwillingness to share. — Roy L. Smith”
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“The greatest thing a man can do for his heavenly Father is to be kind to some of his other children. — Henry Drummond”
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“The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. — J. Petit-Senn”
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“The heart of man is like a creeping plant, which withers unless it has something around which it can entwine. — Charles James Apperley”
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“The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. — Eric Ambler (19091998), A Coffin for Demetrios [1939], ch. 2”
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“The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their profession. — Junius”
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“The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. — Charles R. Swindoll”
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“The Lord gave you two ends—one for sitting and one for thinking. Your success depends on which you use—heads you win, tails you lose. — Gas Flame”
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“The love we give away is the only love we keep. — Elbert Hubbard”
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“The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. — Ralph Waldo Emerson”
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“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him. — Voltaire, 16941778”
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“The more email we get, the shorter and more selective and more delayed our responses become. — Malcolm Gladwell”
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“The morning hour has gold in its mouth. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“The most important element in building new habits is not time but energy. — Thomas Harris”
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“The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself. — Bob Burg”
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“The nature of obligation presupposes that you do not want to take the actions you take. Why else would you need to be forcing yourself into those actions? — Robert Fritz”
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