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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
J. G. Holland
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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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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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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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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Wants keep pace with wealth always.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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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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Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
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Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.
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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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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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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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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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In the homes of America are born the children of America and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
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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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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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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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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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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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Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
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