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"Religion,” [some] argue, “may be all right for certain emotional people, but you can't beat a man who believes in himself.” But this self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more dope addicts, more criminals, more wars, more broken homes, more assaults, more embezzlements, more murders, and more suicides than any other generation that ever lived. It is time for all of us to take stock of our failures, blunders, and costly mistakes. It is about time that we put less confidence in ourselves and more trust and faith in God."

"Which is the most successful country on Earth? In whichever country dying is the most difficult thing, that country is the most successful one! And which is the most stupid country on earth? In whichever country dying is the easiest thing, that country is the most stupid one!"

"[While] disappointment and failure aren't identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God's best for our lives."

"Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!"
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"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things."


"Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain."


"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."


"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."


"They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity."


"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."


"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
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