Quotemeal: Oct. 12th, 1959

Monday, October 12, 1959

"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

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"What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath."
— Thomas Watson —
"Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within."
— Jim Elliot —
"Our faith should be our steering wheel, not our spare tire."
— C. L. Wheeler —
"We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
— Plato —

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Illustration of Ralph Waldo Emerson — "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."

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