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• Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

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  Spoiled, Endure, Can Do

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• He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

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  Love, Courage, Strong

  "The Christian Herald", Vol. 92, p. 72, 1969.

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• It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

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  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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• He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

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  Letting Go, Optimism, Progress

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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• No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

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  Men

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

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  Energy, Language, Speak

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• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  "The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1937.

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• All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

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  Spring, Persons, Altruism

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• What a testing of character adversity is.

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  Character, Adversity, Testing

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2005). “The Manhood of the Master”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

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  Depression, Depressed Person, Needs

  "The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians".

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• When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.

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  Hate, Class, Names

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• Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

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  Spiritual, Struggle, Hospitality

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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• We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

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  Roots, Tree, Answers

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.189, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No man need stay the way he is.

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  Men, Needs, Way

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1934). “No Man Need Stay the Way He is”

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• Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

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  Loyalty, Truth, Honesty

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

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  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.

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  Spiritual, Spring, Struggle

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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• One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

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  Science, Civilization, Shepherds

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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• The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

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  Friendship, Jesus, Men

  "The American Scrap Book: The Year's Golden Harvest on Thought and Achievement". Book published by Wise, 1928.

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• One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

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  Life Worth Living, Worth Living

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• Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

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  Motivational, Eye, Winning

  "Personality and Life : A Practical Guide to Personality Improvement". Book by Jay N. Holliday, 1941.

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• We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

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  Integrity, Responsibility, Our Actions

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• Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

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  Hard Work, Fighting, Men

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• Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

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  Life, Retirement, Business

  "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

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• No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

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  Friendship, Apology, Men

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.174, Cosimo, Inc.

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