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All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.