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• Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselve
  and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill....
• No oath too binding for a lover. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Phaedra, Frag. 848
• Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate.
• OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Heaven Holds a Place for Those who Prey
• There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
  -- Arthur P. Stanley...
• Infancy, n.: The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, Heaven lies about us.
  The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. -- Ambrose Bierce...