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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.
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Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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