It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed ... The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If you cry 'Forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children
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Revelation 6:7:
When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, 'Come!'
(NIV)
When the Lamb broke open the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature call out, Come!
(AMP)
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
(KJV)
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