A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

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Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

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