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/ page 358 of 1205 /God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it
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To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved
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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
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The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us
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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
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Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other
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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men
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In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given
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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
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You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
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Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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