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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
J. G. Holland
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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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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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In the homes of America are born the children of America and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
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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 secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.
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There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
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I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.
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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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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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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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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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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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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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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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