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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."
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Personal Development
"It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!"
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Personal Development
"The Holy Bible is the greatest book."
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Personal Development
"When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions."
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Personal Development
"It doesn't work, she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still."
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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."
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Personal Development
"Mind knows the questions, soul knows the answers."
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Personal Development
"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."
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"Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society don't think straight. They are perverted in their thoughts."
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"I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God."
Power
"When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts."
Time
"The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire."
Comfort
"Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose."
Time
"The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery."
Wisdom
"We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God."
Time
"Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others."
Business
"I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English."
Wife
"As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws."
Faith
"If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world."
Happiness
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