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The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
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Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
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Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
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My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.
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It is never too late to recognize truth and to live by it.
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Living at one's best is constant preparation for instant use.
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The honest, faithful struggler should always realize that failure is but an episode in a true man's life,--never the whole story.
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The knell of lost opportunity is never tolled in this life.
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Very many people, very many students, who otherwise would succeed, who would go through school creditably, graduating with honours, have failed to succeed because they became discouraged.
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Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process.
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do not hope to excite love except by love
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granting that we had both the will and the sense to choose our friends well, how few of us have the power! or, at least, how limited, for most, is the sphere of choice!
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In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful
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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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Such biographies increase a man's self-reliance by demonstrating what men can be, and what they can do; fortifying his hopes and elevating his aims in life.
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When I hear some of my young friends complain of want of sympathy and encouragement, I am inclined to think that my naval life was not the least valuable part of my education.