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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
J. G. Holland
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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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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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
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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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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.
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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 man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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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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It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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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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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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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 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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