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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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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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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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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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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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Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
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We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
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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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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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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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