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"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
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"The horses have stoppedtheir clippity-clop,but feet are too slowfor where I must go.So here I shall stayuntil light of daywhen clippity-clopgets my team underway."

"Don't be in a hurry. Everything arise in the due time."

"What's going on?" I asked when he finished."I'll let you know soon. For now, we have to wait.""Great. My favorite thing to do."

"When people wind you up, just remind them what happens to a piece of elastic."

"A distant love that waits to be together, is by far the most difficult relationship. It's like lighting a candle, and adoring the long flame and robust glow. Until time sets in like wax, overflowing deeper and deeper into the wick, leaving a sparse flame struggling to live. This is where most distant relationships fade, with the wax smothering the flame. This kind of relationship takes patience, hope, unconditional love, trust and strength, all centered around God. If the flame endures to the end, and the two come together, only then will it feel as if the candle was tipped and all the wax came pouring out, when the flame is revived, long and glowing again."

"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."
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"I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens."

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak."

"We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
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