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"The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience."
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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."

"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."

"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."

"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."

"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."

"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."

"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."

"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."

"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."

"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them."

"Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming."
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