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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
J. G. Holland
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The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.
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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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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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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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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
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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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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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.
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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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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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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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There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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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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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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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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