We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.William James
We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple We pray because we cannot help praying.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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