"The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home."
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"There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind."
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"No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue."
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"Remorse is the pain of sin."
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"The most useful is the greatest."
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"The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable"
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"In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study."
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"Humanity is the Son of God."
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"The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life."
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"The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul."
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"The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from."
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"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."
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"What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head."
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"Great success is a great temptation."
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"Religion without joy-it is no religion."
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"Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower."
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"What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness."
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"Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor"
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"Marriages are best made of dissimilar material."
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"Love is the piety of the affections."
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