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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
J. G. Holland
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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
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A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes for God himself sits behind them.
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