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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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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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I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
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So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.
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Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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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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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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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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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 be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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Wants keep pace with wealth always.
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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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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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No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
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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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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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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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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There are no twin souls in God's universe.
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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
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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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