Quotemeal: Oct. 18th, 1956

Thursday, October 18, 1956

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
— Aristotle

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"God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's successes."
— Oscar Wilde —
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson —
"Not only does sin hinder prayer; prayer hinders sin. The two are always opposed. The more careless we are about sin, the less we will pray. The more we pray,..."
— Dr. Alvin Vander Griend —

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Illustration of Aristotle — "Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

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