Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought not by the rising and setting of the sun.Henry Ward Beecher
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind
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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you better look it up.
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When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
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