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For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
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How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
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Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
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One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
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A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
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He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
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Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
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Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
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Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
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A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
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Cast down your bucket where you are.
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Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.
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Your life will never be a straight path.
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Our attempts to banish this importunate duty will only make it return upon us again and again, and every time in a shape more unpleasant than the former.
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The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it.
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Huxley declares that the sense of uselessness is the severest shock which the human system can sustain, and that if persistently sustained, it results in atrophy of function.
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She is besotted with innocent little ambitions, and does not understand this apparent waste of herself, this elaborate preparation, if no work is provided for her.
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Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.
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At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.
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The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means?
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I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself.
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Find your sole delight and recreation in proceeding from one unselfish action to another, with God ever in mind.
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Is pleasure, then, the object of your being, and not action, and the exercise of your powers?