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I work hard, but I work from a position of rest.
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.
Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.
God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
I like anybody who does any kind of construction.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.
All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
If people want to criticize me, that's their issue.
Faith always shows itself in the whole personality.
Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.
The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.
Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.
The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.
The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.
I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.
Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.