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Endurance is the crowning quality...

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Want gave tongue, and at her howl, Sin awakened with a growl.

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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

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They are both valiant young men who served enthusiastically. They're bold missionaries, diligent, just trying their best to serve to the best of their ability. It's just so unfortunate that something like this could happen.

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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

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It is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

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He gives us the very quintessence of perception,

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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

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