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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
J. G. Holland
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Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
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Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
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I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.
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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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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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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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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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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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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I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
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Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
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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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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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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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