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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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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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The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.
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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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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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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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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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In the homes of America are born the children of America and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
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Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
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There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
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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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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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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
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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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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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