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We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

— George Boardman the Younger Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

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Work is God's ordinance as truly as prayer.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him.

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