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Character cannot be developed...

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
I am prepared to

I am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
The golden rule of

The golden rule of conduct ... is mutual toleration seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.
Loneliness and the feeling

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Purity of mind and

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
Tenderness and kindness are

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Pursue your purpose

"CAN ANYONE REMEMBER WHEN THE TIMES WERE NOT HARD, AND MONEY NOT SCARCE": Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870. Let's stay focused on what is available and achievable, rather than what is not! The media is dripping with fear, doubt and scarcity. Become a person of faith, purpose and abundance. Set your goals and push forward with enthusiasm, prayer and persistence, the world needs someone to give them hope, why not you!
If you judge people

If you judge people you have no time to love them.
There is nothing that

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
It is unwise to

It is unwise to be too sure of ones own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Tokens of Wisdom
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. The cost may seem high at the time, and in hindsight we may have chosen a different path, but if we look for the benefit in the outcome and not focus on the adversity, then the lesson becomes priceless and we get to deposit another small token of life into our personal bank of wisdom.
The weak can never

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Think and grow rich

 "Think and grow rich" contains some powerful messages and is often the first personal development book read by many people. It is worth considering that the words used in the title could be applied to our own life. When we take the time to "think", to slow down a little, to relax, to plan, to dream, to pray, to read, to smile, to reach out; then we grow rich in health, faith, friends, family and finance.
I have also seen

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
I would rather make

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
Honest disagreement is often

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
First they ignore you

First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win.
It is difficult but

It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
Almost anything you do

Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
To keep a lamp

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
In matters of conscience

In matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.
Indolence is a delightful

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Strength does not come

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Fear has its use

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
The mice which helplessly

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.