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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
J. G. Holland
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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.
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The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.
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How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.
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Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.
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Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
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All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
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Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
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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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Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
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Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
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Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
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This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.
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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.
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