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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Topic: Affliction
Source: None
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Topic: Art and Artists
Source: None
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Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the
everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them
as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and
feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.
Topic: Authorship
Source: Star Papers--Oxford--Bodleian Library
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
Topic: Business
Source: None
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Topic: Business
Source: None
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Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the
heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in
their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy,
and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are
filled with earthy and material things.
Topic: Character
Source: Life Thoughts
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Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the
ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the
turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
Topic: Character
Source: Life Thoughts
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Topic: Character
Source: None
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
Topic: Charity
Source: None
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
Topic: Charity
Source: None
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We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.
Topic: Children
Source: None
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There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Topic: Class
Source: None
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
Topic: Culture
Source: None
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Topic: Cynic
Source: None
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Now comes the mystery.
Topic: Death
Source: None
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A church debt is the devil's salary.
Topic: Debt
Source: None
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Topic: Defeat
Source: None
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
Topic: Defeat
Source: None
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The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.
Topic: Dogs
Source: None
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and
will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
Topic: Duty
Source: Life Thoughts
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Topic: Enthusiasm
Source: None
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Topic: Faith
Source: None
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Topic: Faith
Source: None
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As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers,
we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own
sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love
them.
Topic: Flowers
Source: Star Papers--A Discourse of Flowers
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and
animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some
are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and
upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
Topic: Flowers
Source: Star Papers--A Discourse of Flowers
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: None
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. -Henry Ward Beecher.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: None
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Topic: Government
Source: None
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Topic: Grace
Source: None
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Topic: Gratitude
Source: None
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Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Topic: Gratitude
Source: None
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Topic: Gratitude
Source: None
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There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave.
Topic: Grave
Source: None
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Topic: Hate
Source: None
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. -Henry Ward Beecher.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -Henry Ward Beecher.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
Topic: Heaven
Source: None
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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Topic: Humanity
Source: None
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but
a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power
of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Topic: Invention
Source: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit--Business
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
Topic: Law
Source: None
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Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
Topic: Law
Source: None
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows.
Topic: Libraries
Source: Star Papers--Oxford--Bodleian Library
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind.
Topic: Machine
Source: None
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Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
Topic: Marriage
Source: None
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