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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for 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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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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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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No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
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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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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
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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 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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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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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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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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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
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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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There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
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