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A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?
Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.