“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be sho...”
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be sho...”
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“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
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“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”
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“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”
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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He...”
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“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
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“There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing...”
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“The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.”
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“God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.”
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“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
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“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
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“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
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“Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”
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“No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.”
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“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
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“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”
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“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”
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“Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.”
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