"Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock."
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"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold."
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"Disappointment is often the salt of life."
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"Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character."
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"Humanity is the sin of God"
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"Politics is the science of urgencies."
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"The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul."
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"Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution."
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"To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents."
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"Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body."
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"You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king."
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"Pride is both a virtue and a vice."
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"It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history."
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"The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth."
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"Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself."
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"He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands."
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"Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain."
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"It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven."
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"Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe."
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"Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols."
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