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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
J. G. Holland
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What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
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Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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Ideals are the world's masters.
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if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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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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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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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
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