Tuesday, December 6, 2005
How to we preserve peace best?
To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. George Washington
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Monday, December 5, 2005
A Swedish Proverb Says...
God gives every bird its worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
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Sunday, December 4, 2005
Tolerance Is ...
"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine." Henry S. Haskins
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Saturday, December 3, 2005
Children and Their Parents
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." Oscar Wilde
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Friday, December 2, 2005
Are We Settling for Less than the Best?
... our desires [are] not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at...
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Thursday, December 1, 2005
On Reputation
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Who Do YOU Want to Rule?
Men must be ruled by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn
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Monday, November 28, 2005
What Is an Honorable Person?
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. H.L. Mencken
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Saturday, November 26, 2005
On Giving Advice
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. Hannah Whitall Smith
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Friday, November 25, 2005
What Is True Religion?
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Holy...
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