The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.Henry Ward Beecher
Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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