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 To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.  The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along. All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little. There is a need for heroism in American life today. If you want to be loved, be lovable. - Ovid It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust so far and no further, is none. What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged, Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden, Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior, still our refuge, Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer! Marriage is a great institution, and no family should be without it. I'm not ok - you're not ok, and that's ok. Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument. Even a small star shines in the darkness. Behind every successful man is a woman - with nothing to wear. Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible. It is not opposition but indifference which separates men. In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions, but I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them and make them right. Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. A liar should have a good memory. 
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