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" People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. "
Tryon Edwards
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" Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. "
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" Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. "
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" One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. "
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