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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profiteth others and ourselves.: Anne Baxter
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.: Bishop Vincent
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.: William James (1842 - 1910)
There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.: Francis A. Carter
There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the other are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; and men's own rigtheousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make rigtheousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.: Jonathan Edwards
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.: Erik H. Erikson
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.: M. Henry
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.: William Saroyan (1908 - 1981), "The Human Comedy"
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)

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