It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.
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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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