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"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."
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"Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness."

"Employment sells out the future life."

"We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving."

"Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."

"Life demands death to self."
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"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."

"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old."

"Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions."

"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."

"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own."

"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."

"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"

"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."

"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."
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