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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.
It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.
In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.
Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.