The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONOur minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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