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Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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102
For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.
103
It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.
104
This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.
105
We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.
106
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.
107
To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
108
All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.
109
the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing
110
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
111
The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy.
112
Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.
113
Every person naturally wants to become all that he is capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be.
114
Success in life is becoming what you want to be.
115
The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.
116
The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
117
You are to become a creator, not a competitor.
118
You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.
119
There are some national questions in the solution of which patriotism should exclude partisanship.
120
Thus worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.
121
By holding the representative responsible only to the people, and exempting him from all other influences, we elevate the character of the constituent and quicken his sense of responsibility to his country.
122
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Attribution contested
The letter opens by naming Paul and the catalogue records that, because it is the only claim the text itself makes. Authorship is disputed: on vocabulary, style and the situation it addresses, many scholars hold it was written in Paul's name by someone in his circle after his death. That was an ordinary practice at the time and is not the same thing as forgery — but it does mean the name on the letter is not settled.
123
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Attribution contested
The letter opens by naming Paul and the catalogue records that, because it is the only claim the text itself makes. Authorship is disputed: on vocabulary, style and the situation it addresses, many scholars hold it was written in Paul's name by someone in his circle after his death. That was an ordinary practice at the time and is not the same thing as forgery — but it does mean the name on the letter is not settled.
124
I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
Attribution contested
Circulated everywhere as if you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else, which appears in none of Washington's books, addresses or letters. This is the sentence in Up from Slavery it compresses. The paraphrase is not unfair, but it is not a quotation, and it drops the second half -- the claim that oppressing the unfortunate makes the oppressor weak -- which is the part he was actually arguing.
125
Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Rooseveltmisattributed·The Invincible Strategy, in The Supreme Conquest and Other Sermons Preached in America, by W. L. Watkinson·1907
Wrongly attributed
Adlai Stevenson used a version of this in his eulogy for Eleanor Roosevelt in 1962, and it has been hers ever since; it is also sold as Confucius and as an old Chinese proverb. It is neither. It is W. L. Watkinson, the English Methodist preacher, in a sermon called The Invincible Strategy, printed in 1907 -- and he presents it as a saying already in circulation rather than as his own coinage. What is certain is that this is the earliest printed appearance anybody has produced, and it predates Roosevelt's public life.