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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
J. G. Holland
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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In the homes of America are born the children of America and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
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A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes for God himself sits behind them.
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I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
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Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
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There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
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It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
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The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
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Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.
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The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.
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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
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There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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