What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
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The first evil choice or act is linked to the second and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destinyTryon Edwards
Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.
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