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"Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same time disgraced. And then, if you are wise, let ill repute, well won, be a delight. Farewell."
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"The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority."
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"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
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"I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard-I must keep armed."
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"Who gave fire permission to burn?"
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"But if I feel, may I never express? "Never! declared Reason.I groaned under her bitter sternness. Never - never - oh, hard word! This hag, this Reason, would not let me look up, or smile, or hope; she could not rest unless I were altogether crushed, cowed, broken-in, and broken down. According to her, I was born only to work for a piece of bread, to await the pains of death, and steadily through all life to despond. Reason might be right; yet no wonder we are glad at times to defy her, to rush from under her rod and give a truant hour to Imagination - her soft, bright foe, our sweet Help, our divine Hope."
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"...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours."
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"Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemptionand provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn."
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"Do not become more useful than God."
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"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."
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"Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil."
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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."
Trust
"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."
Nature
"The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction."
Education
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
Generosity
"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."
Heart
"One must steer, not talk."
Talk
"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."
Generosity
"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."
Life
"A great mind becomes a great fortune."
Fortune
"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
Books
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