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Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. – A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

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To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

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The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind ; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

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The first evil choice or act is linked to the second ; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny. – As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.'

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No one can contemplate the great facts of astronomy without feeling his own littleness and the wonderful sweep of the power and providence of God.

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Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

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