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In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.
The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.
One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.
What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.
Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.
We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.
But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free.
A peaceful man must fight For that which peace demands, Freedom and faith, honor and right, Defend with heart and hands.
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.
Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!
Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.
It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.
Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last
Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.
Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!
Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, He provideth a kindness for many generations, And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.
The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts!
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!
I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.
The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.
For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.
The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.
Peace without Justice is a low estate, A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal, We'll pay the price of war to make it real.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.