Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.Theodore Parker
I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality I am conscious of eternal life.
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We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason our blood was attained before we were born our creeds were infidelity to the mother church our constitution treason to our fatherland.
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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
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Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other it has often been so.
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