Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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Principles are eternal.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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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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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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