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The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.
A woman who has not been pretty has never been young.
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
America has begun her career at the culminating point of life; as Adam did at the age of thirty.
Strength alone knows conflict. Weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
Youth should be a savings-bank.
The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others
My experience is that Christianity dispels more mystery than it involves. With Christianity, it is twilight in the world; without it, night. Christianity does not finish the statue,—that is heaven's work; but it "rough-hews" all things,—truth, the mind, the soul.
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The heart has always the pardoning power.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success!
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There is nothing at all in life except what we put there.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
We expect everything, and are prepared for nothing.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)