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Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

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The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

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No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

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He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

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The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

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The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

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There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

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A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

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The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

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Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

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Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

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To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

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God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

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If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

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Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

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God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.

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The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

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A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.

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The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

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This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

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Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.

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A consistent Christian may not have rapture; he has that which is much better than rapture — calmness — God's serene and perpetual presence.

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Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.

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Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

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On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

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Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

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It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

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It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits than to say that our lives depend upon our opinions, which is only now and then true.

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