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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
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Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
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Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.
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Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin
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Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
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Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.
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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
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No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
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All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.
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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.
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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
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Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.
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Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.
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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.
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Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
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Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
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True art is reverent imitation of God.
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My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
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To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
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We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.
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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. One who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
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There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
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True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
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