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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
J. G. Holland
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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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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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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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Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
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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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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
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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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I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.
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A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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