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The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
The worst idleness is that of the heart. Think of the condition and prospects of a voiceless, thankless, prayerless heart.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
Religion, to be permanently influential, must be intelligent.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
The passive idler of all men in the world is the most difficult to please. Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
Nothing is so contemptible as habitual contempt. It is impossible to remain long under its control without being dwarfed by its influence.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
The most profitable and praiseworthy genius in the world is untiring industry.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
The kiss of the apostate was the most bitter earthly ingredient in the agonies which Christ endured.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
Whatever we are directed to pray for, we are also exhorted to work for; we are not permitted to mock Jehovah, asking that of Him which we deem not worth our pains to acquire.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
Child of earth and earthly sorrows—child of God and immortal hopes—arise from thy sadness, gird up the loins of thy mind, and with unfaltering energy press toward thy rest and reward on high.
Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitude—the unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on Divine aid.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. It is necessary and most profitable to remember the advice to Titus, "Showing all good fidelity in all things."
Proverbs for the People (1849)
It is not the placidity of stupid ease that we should covet, but the repose that is requisite for the renewal of exhausted strength, the serenity that succeeds the storm, and the salubrity that repays its ravages.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that have ever lived have been contented, happy, and honored while in the pursuit of humble trades.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross—with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved—injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.
Proverbs for the People (1849)
While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself; upon the principle well understood in medical circles, that the feeblest bodies are always the most sensitive
Proverbs for the People (1849)