It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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