None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANA belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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