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I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

William Lyon Phelps

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William Lyon Phelps
Age: 78 †
Born: 1865
Born: January 2
Died: 1943
Died: August 21
Author
Scientist
University Teacher
New Haven
Connecticut
Bible
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Religious
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Valuable

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A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
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At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat.
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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
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Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
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Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
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The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it it would be, I think a cow.
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A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
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Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
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Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.
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The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.
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