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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."

"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."

"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."

"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."

"When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear."

"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."

"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."

"The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them."
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"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."

"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."

"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."

"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."

"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."

"The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it."

"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."
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