When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.
Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.
Love is the wine of existence.
No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.
Discover what you are.
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!
We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.
The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.
We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.
There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.
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