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But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves.

If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease.

On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature,--opposition to it in his love of justice.

This declared indifference, but, as I must think, real, covert zeal, for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate.

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government,--that is despotism.