We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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