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Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

— Henry van Dyke Joy and Power (1903)

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What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Two honest and good-natured anglers have never met each other by the way without crying out, "What luck?"

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside of the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Little Rivers (1895)

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