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The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.
It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.
Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.