Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence It takes pretty good people to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.
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Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
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If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
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The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
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The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
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