No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
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Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
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