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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
J. G. Holland
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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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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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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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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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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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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No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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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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It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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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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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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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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Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
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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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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
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