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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
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I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
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Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
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There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
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