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Rh Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward. —Author:Henry Benjamin Whipple.

Tempests may shake our dwellings and dissipate our commerce, but they scourge before them the lazy elements, which otherwise would stagnate into pestilence.

—Author:Carlos Wilcox.

When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ. —Author:Dwight Lyman Moody.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate. —Author:Adam Clarke.

I have never heard any thing about the resolutions of the disciples, but a great deal about the Acts of the Apostles. —Author:Horace Mann (1796-1859).

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance. —.