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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

J. G. Holland

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if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
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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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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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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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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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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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God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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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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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
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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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Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
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Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
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