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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

J. G. Holland

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There are no twin souls in God's universe.
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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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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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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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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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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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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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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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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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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to 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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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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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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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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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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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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