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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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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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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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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
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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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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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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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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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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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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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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes for God himself sits behind them.
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God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
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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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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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