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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
J. G. Holland
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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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So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.
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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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Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
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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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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
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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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Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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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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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.
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