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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
J. G. Holland
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There are no twin souls in God's universe.
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Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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Doubtless the world is wicked enough but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.
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We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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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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A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
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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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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
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Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
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