- Envy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020