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Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.
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.
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.