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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

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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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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 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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There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
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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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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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