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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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