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But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance, and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.

— Mark Hopkins Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

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Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

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Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

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The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

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