"Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother."
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"You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business."
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"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could."
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"If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries."
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"The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day."
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"Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go."
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"Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness."
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"All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength."
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"People who know how to act are never preachers."
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"Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt."
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"We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday."
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"When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him."
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"Blessed are those who have no talent!"
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"None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have."
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"The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue."
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"Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky."
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"Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame."
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"O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas."
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"It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right."
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"Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do."
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