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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
J. G. Holland
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Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
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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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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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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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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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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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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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It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
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Calmness is the cradle of 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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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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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The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.
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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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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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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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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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