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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

John Henry Newman

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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God Love Voice
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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Decay Fickle Needs
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Art Beauty Nature
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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Dominion Love Powerful Strong
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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Doe Guilt Responsibility
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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Remuneration Treasure Years
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Depth Height Way
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Believe Conviction Results
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Change Inspirational Wish
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Attitude Friends Inspirational
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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Bird Instruments Resources
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Exercise Friends Love Men

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