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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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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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Ideals are the world's masters.
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He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.
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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.
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Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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A noble deed is a step towards heaven.
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Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
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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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A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
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A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
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A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
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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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Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
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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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Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
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God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.
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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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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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