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"There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders."
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"Do not depreciate a creation of God."
"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."
"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."
"Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality."
"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."
"The sweetest apples are eaten first."
"The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified."
"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."
"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
"It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such."
"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?"
"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
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