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All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
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The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.
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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
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it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
