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... Evil thoughts bring forth also , but always after their kind . It is impossible to get high thinking from low living ; they never go together . He who is the slave of evil can never be free either to do or reach the highest good . The evil ...
... Evil thoughts bring forth also , but always after their kind . It is impossible to get high thinking from low living ; they never go together . He who is the slave of evil can never be free either to do or reach the highest good . The evil ...
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... evil . You have talents , ability , power , peculiar to yourself . Shall they bring forth a harvest of noble deeds , and so bring that highest of successes - a noble character ? Character is greater than intellect , greater than gold ...
... evil . You have talents , ability , power , peculiar to yourself . Shall they bring forth a harvest of noble deeds , and so bring that highest of successes - a noble character ? Character is greater than intellect , greater than gold ...
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... evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity . " He is right . Woe unto him who seeks eminence by dishonorable means . The success gained by evil doing forever endangers him who thus attains it . There were ...
... evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity . " He is right . Woe unto him who seeks eminence by dishonorable means . The success gained by evil doing forever endangers him who thus attains it . There were ...
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... evil but a good . It can only become an evil when its possessor hoards it , to his own and others ' hurt . Wrong use will make of everything an evil . The vices popularly ascribed to riches are due , not to wealth itself , but to the ...
... evil but a good . It can only become an evil when its possessor hoards it , to his own and others ' hurt . Wrong use will make of everything an evil . The vices popularly ascribed to riches are due , not to wealth itself , but to the ...
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... evil results of which yet abide in our country . Our minds are the vital force that deals with and governs to a large extent physical facts , and the will is the vital force of the mind without which mind seems useless and simply the ...
... evil results of which yet abide in our country . Our minds are the vital force that deals with and governs to a large extent physical facts , and the will is the vital force of the mind without which mind seems useless and simply the ...
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