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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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
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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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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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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
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When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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A helping word to one in trouble is like a switch in a railroad track . . . an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
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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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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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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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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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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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