High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
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One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.Tryon Edwards
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin
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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
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