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Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.


Charles H. Townes

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C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember y...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land,...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The wishing gate opens into nothing.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he ke...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON We are all at times unconscious prophets.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affec...
DR. CHARLES H. MAYO MD If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
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