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• The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

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  Faith, Character, Shining

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• Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.

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  Spiritual, Angel, Men

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• Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

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  Nature, Travel, Church

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• Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

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  Real, Flower, Real Friends

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• Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

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  Good Day, Clouds, Black

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• A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

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  Christian, Gentleman, Christianity

  "Guesses at Truth". Book by Augustus William, 1827.

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• Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

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  Men, Evil, Neighbor

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• What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

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  Heart, Humble, Hypocrite

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• The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

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  Christian, Fear, Dying

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

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  Beef, Eating, Pity

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• It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

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  Loss, Evil, Prejudice

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• Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

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  Thinking, Voice, May

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• Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

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  Men, Thinking, Principles

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• It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

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  Sweet, Believe, Flower

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• A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

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  Mother, Children, Giving

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