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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.

J. G. Holland

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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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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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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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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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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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There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.
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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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