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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Music cleanses the understanding inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
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Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
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