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"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
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"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."
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"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
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"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
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"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
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"You only need enough experience to master the art."
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"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very, ' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
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"The key is in the craft."
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"True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently."
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"Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician."
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"Your expertise elevates your impressions to an entirely new realm. When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people will be impressed."
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"My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful."
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"Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature."
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"We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere."
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"It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion."
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"The things that are essential to salvation are so exceedingly simple that no child need sit down in despair of understanding the things which make for his peace. Christ crucified is not a riddle for sages, but a plain truth for plain people. True it is meat for men, but it is also milk for babes."
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"Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister."
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"If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought."
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"Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God."
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"This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST."
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"In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it."
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