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Abraham Lincoln
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Religion
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Obedience
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I care not if God is on my side; my constant hope and prayer is that I may be found on the Lord's side.
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2
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Albert Camus
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Religion
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Judgment
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Don't wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.
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3
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Albert Einstein
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Religion
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Chance
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I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos!
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4
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Albert Einstein
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Religion
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Service
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The only life worth living is a life lived for others.
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5
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Ambrose Bierce
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Religion
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Prayer
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Pray, verb: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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6
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Arab Proverb
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Religion
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Miracles
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Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
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7
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Arnold Glasow
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Religion
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Example
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Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.
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8
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Benjamin Franklin
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Religion
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Accountability
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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
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9
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Benjamin Franklin
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Religion
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Integrity
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Don't judge a man's wealth, or his piety by his appearance on Sunday.
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10
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Brigham Young
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Religion
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Truth
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If you love the truth you can remember it.
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11
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Buddah
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Religion
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Discipline
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If one man can conquer in one battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he (the later) is the greatest of conquerers.
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12
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C. S. Lewis
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Religion
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Temptation
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one, the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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13
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C. S. Lewis
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Lds
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Leisure
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Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. [That is because] there is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.
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14
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Cardinal Francis George
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Religion
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Religious Freedom
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Any attempt to reduce that fuller sense of religious freedom, which has been part of our history in this country for more than two centuries, to a private reality of worship and individual conscience so long as you don't make anyone else unhappy, is not in our tradition...It was the tradition of the Soviet Union.
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15
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Charles Dickens
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Religion
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Service
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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16
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David Kupelian
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Religion
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Popularity
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The problem is, living off approval and applause, and deriving your sense of self-worth from the praise of others, may feel great, but it also produces great problems. When it comes to being worshipped, human beings just don't make very good gods, something the Good Book warns about repeatedly. Worship is meant for God alone. But when humans are idolized and worshipped – and when they lower themselves to accept that homage and bask in its glory – major conflict mysteriously appears within the idolized star.
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17
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David Kupelian
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Religion
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Repentance
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To repent just means you simply look honestly in the mirror and see your own flaws and weaknesses and don't make excuses for them, don't deny them, blame someone else for them or justify them.
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18
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David Kupelian
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Religion
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Hate
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Perhaps you're more familiar with that other feel-good "drug," which has the same effect of making you invulnerable to seeing your own faults. It's called hate.
For example, the main reason Islamic culture is so notoriously non-introspective, blaming everyone and everything else for its own gargantuan problems, is because so many Muslims (though obviously not all) have been pumped up with hate. Hatred for Jews in particular and all "infidels" (non-Muslims) in general, as well as hatred and blame toward women, or toward the other varieties of Muslims, and so on, renders them literally unable to see themselves and their faults. Their hatred acts like a narcotic drug that takes away their conscience-pain and recognition of their faults that would otherwise naturally impress itself on their minds. They are filled instead with the ecstasy of false righteousness based on infidel-hatred.
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19
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Edmund Burke
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Religion
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Evil
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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20
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Religion
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Action
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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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21
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Religion
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Actions
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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22
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Religion
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Reverence
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Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
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23
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English Proverb
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Religion
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Conscience
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart
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24
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Eric Hoffer
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Religion
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Love
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than it is to love one's neighbor.
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25
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Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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Religion
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Action
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Be sure to keep busy, so the devil may always find you occupied.
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26
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George Bernard Shaw
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Religion
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Action
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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27
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German Proverb
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Religion
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Charity
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Charity sees the need not the cause.
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28
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Ghandi
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Religion
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Example
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My life is my message.
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29
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Helen Keller
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Religion
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Mission
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God has given each of one of us a task, which we can perform better than anyone else. We must find out what that task is, and how to do it in the best way possible.
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30
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Helen Keller
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Religion
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Evil
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only spend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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31
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Henry David Thoreau
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Religion
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Example
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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32
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Religion
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Charity
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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33
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Hindu proverb
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Religion
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Service
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Help thy brother's boat across, an Lo! Thine own has reached the shore.
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34
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Jack London
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Religion
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Charity
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A bone to a dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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35
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John Locke
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Religion
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Action
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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36
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Joseph Conrad
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Religion
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Conscience
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All a man can betray is his conscience
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37
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Kim Crenshaw Sorensen
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Lds
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Mercy
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Then I realized that every time we ask our Father for anything in prayer we are asking for His mercy. We are asking Him to do something for us we cannot do for ourselves. We cannot expect to receive his mercy unless we ourselves are being merciful to others.
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38
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Religion
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Poverty
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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39
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Malcolm Muggeridge
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Lds
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Death
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Now, the prospect of death overshadows all others for me. I am like a man on a sea voyage nearing his destination. When I embarked, I worried about having a cabin with a porthole, whether I should be asked to sit at the captain's table, who were the more attractive and important passengers. All such considerations become pointless, however, when I shall soon be disembarking.
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40
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Mary Howitt
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Religion
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Sin
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For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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41
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Mir Hossein Mousavi
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Religion
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Tyranny
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...religious tyranny is the worst form of tyranny.
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42
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Phillip Sydney
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Religion
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Actions
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The end of all knowledge should be virtuous action.
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43
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Publilius Syrus
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Religion
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Integrity
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You should not live one way in private, another in public
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44
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Religion
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Actions
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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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45
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Religion
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Service
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What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for others.
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46
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Religion
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Example
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What you do shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
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47
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Religion
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Providence
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There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations...It makes its own instruments, creates the man for the time, trains him in poverty, inspires his genius, and arms him for his task.
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48
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Rev. Robert Schuler
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Lds
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Prayer
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God's delays are not always God's denials.
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49
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Seneca
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Religion
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Example
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The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
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50
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Thomas Adams
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Religion
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Covetousness
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The covetous man pines in plenty, like tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
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51
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Thomas Hardy
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Religion
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Procrastination
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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52
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Unknown
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Religion
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Actions
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People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.
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