Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers … - Noah Porter

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It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.

Noah Porter

Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

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Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

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Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.

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Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

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