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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Education is only like good culture,
it changes the size, but not the sort.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Going out into life
that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Religion is using everything for God.

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

We go to the grave of a friend saying,
"A man is dead,"
but angels throng about him saying,
"A man is born."

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

A mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

Now comes the mystery! (last words)

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Love is more just than justice.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!