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Occupation: Quotations from Burning Words

One of the best maxims in determining our course in life is, to select, at the outset, that in which virtue and principle will be least likely to be put to a test, and in which, from the nature of the calling, a man may bring around him such associations and influences as will be an auxiliary in keeping him in the in the path of virtue.— ALBERT BARNES

Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which " station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.— JOHN RUSKIN

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.— H. W. BEECHER

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.— CHALMERS