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Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

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.

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Nothing is so insupportable to man as to be completely at rest, without passion, without business, without diversion, without study.

Without diversion no joy, with diversion no sadness.

all the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own chamber

The very thing which is now the cause of thy great grief ought to have brought thee tranquillity.

Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

We cannot get upon our feet, as a people, until we learn the saving habit; until we learn to save every nickel, every dime and every dollar that we can spare.

Any one can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job.

The men you see spending most of their time looking for higher and more lucrative positions are, nine times out of ten, men who have made worthless failures in other places.

There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

This west coast makes me remember with pleasure the free, unbounded plains of Patagonia; yet, with the true spirit of contradiction, I cannot forget how sublime is the silence of the forest.

Every man hath two birth-days: two days, at least, in every year, which set him upon revolving the lapse of time, as it affects his mortal duration.

In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.

In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.

In that category before anything else comes old age, to which all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained.

So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.