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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
J. G. Holland
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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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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
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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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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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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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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 really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
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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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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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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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Ideals are the world's masters.
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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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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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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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God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.
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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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