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“At night, I give all my worries and fears to God.
He’s going to be up all night anyway.” Peter puts it like this:
Let him have all your worries and cares, for he is always thinking about you
and watching everything that concerns you.

Josh Billings muses, “Love looks through a telescope, envy through a
microscope.”

we have the answer to our original question. The United States’
standard railroad gauge of 4
feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an imperial Roman
war chariot. But why did the Romans use that spacing? Their chariots were
made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war-horses

The United States Standard Railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4
feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge
used? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English
expatriates built U.S. railroads. Why did the English build them like that?

William Ward has this recipe for success:
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while
others are playing; and dream while others are wishing

There are two types of people in the world: those who come into a room and
say, “Here I am!” and those who come in and say, “Ah, there you are!” How
do you know a good person? A good person brings out goodness in others.
Find happiness by helping others find it

Ralph
Waldo Emerson observed,
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show
themselves great.

Joan Welch said, “You
can’t clear your own fields while counting the rocks on your neighbor’s
farm.”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we donot dare that things are difficult” (Seneca).

“He who has not forgiven an
enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life,”
declared Johann Lavater.