Noah Porter famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
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Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
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Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
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Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
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Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.
-- Noah Porter
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
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The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
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Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
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My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?
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