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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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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
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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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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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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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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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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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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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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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A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes for God himself sits behind them.
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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
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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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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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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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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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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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