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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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Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
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In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
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He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.
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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
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The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
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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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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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The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
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He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
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Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
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Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
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I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
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Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
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Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
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This only will I say, that the most crushing of misfortune's burdens is, that as soon as a charge is fastened upon the unhappy, they are believed to have deserved their sufferings.
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It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.
Booker T. Washingtonverified·Address at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition, in Up from Slavery·September 18, 1895
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washingtonverified·Address at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition, in Up from Slavery·September 18, 1895
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.
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The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.
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There is a vast difference between working and being worked.
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The fact that the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraint in dealing with offical misconduct.