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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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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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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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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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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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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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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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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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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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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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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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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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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
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