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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Agree Decided Events History
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Agreed Upon Fable History
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Safety Trust Plank Loves
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God said His grace is sufficient and our strength is made perfect in weakness. Receive the grace of God and allow the power of Jesus Christ to rest upon you.

Rest Christ Power Jesus
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

Absolutely Am Bored Come
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

Able Accomplish Away Christianity
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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

Blessings God History Mankind
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Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

Ever Nothing Printed Wise
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Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Love Direct Marked Element
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Books Collective Depends Education
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Accomplish Being Brought Conviction
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Age Agree Chastity Filth
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I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

Absolutely Believe Come Community
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The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
Almost Depends Education Entirely
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I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.

Been Blessings Cannot Faithful
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Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

People Proof Committed Words
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Become Feel Friends Guidance
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Alone Brings Courage Energies
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Sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

Sanctification Dependent Human Attitude
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Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.

Consideration Right Feelings Public
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Attached Depends Happiness Love
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When called upon, do your best. That's all anyone can ask.

Best Anyone Ask
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In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

America Atmosphere Create Dependency
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Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Adapt Also Am Best
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Against Fallen Me More
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Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

Attain Beasts Begin Bones
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No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

Enterprise Extent Full Generous
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In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

After Britain Expectation First
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Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.

Based Efforts Final Hard
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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Ability Absolutely Almost Both
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Happiness Depends Quality Thought
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Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

Not Unlike Country History
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Bears Depends Important Life
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Policy Rest Philosophical Opinion
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Time Public Man Best
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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Reveal Thought Wise Council
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Earth Supported Power Truth
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Depend Father Form Less
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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Conviction Devotion Excellent Other
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

Lovely Nook Grand Beautiful
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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.

Man Unless Vocation Intended
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

Every man Make Daughter Learn
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Accordingly Care Depends Entertain
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Any Behavior Best Him
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Bunch Everybody Follows He
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The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Greatest Misfortune Wise Man
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

Bad Believe Find Finding
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

Agree Enables Failures Family
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Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Habit Faculties Dormant Done
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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

Soul Subject Health Disease
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