A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
J. G. HOLLANDThe fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God’s world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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Every man who can be a first-rate something — as every man can be who is a man at all — has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
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I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins–particularly fashionable sins.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God’s world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
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Wants keep pace with wealth always.
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The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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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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Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
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