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“For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.”

Character Earth Goes On Devil Folks Coarse Blockheads

Author:Martin Luther

“The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.”

Way Character Seems Earth Form Land Color Broken Grades Rolling Bizarre

Book:Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter

Source: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter

“The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.”

Years Real Character Earth Purpose Three Jesus Christ Known Week Three Years Ministry Real Character

Book:Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College

Source: Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College

“All of us, single or married, are eternally part of some family-someway, somewhere, somehow-and much of our joy in life comes as we correctly recognize and properly develop those family relationships. We come to this earth charged with a mission: to learn to love and serve one another. To best help us accomplish this, God has placed us in families, for he knows that is where we can best learn to overcome selfishness and pride and to sacrifice for others and to make happiness and helpfulness and humility and love the very essence of our character.”

“A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.”

Humans May Character Feelings Earth Found Existence Human Nature Judgment Errors Surface Sentiments Metals Concealed Sandy Precious Metal

Book:Essays and aphorisms

Source: Essays and aphorisms

“We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money, have been sacrificed to them than to any other altar on this green earth, and for what?”

Mind Has Beens Character Earth Clothes Green Peace Of Mind Customs More Time Temper Requirements Altars Green Earth

Author:Kate Langley Bosher