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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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We work and that is godlike.
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
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The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
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Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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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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God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
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He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
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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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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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Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
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God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.
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A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.
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The temple of art is built in words.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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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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