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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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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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
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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 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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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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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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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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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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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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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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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 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 soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
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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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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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