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A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our intimate conviction,—will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will never wish to substitute his power for our own.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than from eating too little.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Every thing here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
When our friends die, in proportion as we loved them, we die with them—we go with them. We are not wholly of the earth.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Peace is the fairest form of happiness.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
O, for a voice of power to arouse the human spirit from its death in life of animality, to quicken it with a fit consciousness of its own nature, to lift it to an adequate comprehension of the purposes for which the sublime thoughts of God, of duty, of disinterested love, of heaven are opened within!
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Friendship heightens all our affections. We receive all the ardor of our friend in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to each the fervor of each.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Home—the nursery of the Infinite.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Taught by experience to know my own blindness, shall I speak as if I could not err, and as if others might not in some disputed points be more enlightened than myself?
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
She was little known beyond her home; but there she silently spread around her that soft, pure light, the preciousness of which is never fully understood till it is quenched.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A religion giving dark views of God, and infusing superstitious fear of innocent enjoyment, instead of aiding sober habits, will, by making men at abject and sad, impair their moral force, and prepare them for intemperance as a refuge from depression or despair.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Fiction is no longer a mere amusement; but transcendent genius, accommodating itself to the character of the age, has seized upon this province of literature, and turned fiction from a toy into a mighty engine.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Oh, the unspeakable littleness of a soul which, intrusted with Christianity, speaking in God’s name to immortal beings, with infinite excitements to the most enlarged, fervent love, sinks down into narrow self-regard, and is chiefly solicitous of his own honor.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
While earthly objects are exhausted by familiarity the thought of God becomes to the devout man continually brighter, richer, vaster; derives fresh luster from all that he observes of nature and Providence, and attracts to itself all the glories of the universe.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fulness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought and feeling, to which nothing, as we believe, ministers so largely as enlightened religion.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us and delights in us; does for us what we want, is willing and fully engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
We cannot enjoy a friend here. If we are to meet it is beyond the grave. How much of our soul a friend takes with him! We half die in him.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A theology at war with the laws of physical nature would be a battle of no doubtful issue. The laws of our spiritual nature give still less chance of success to the system which would thwart or stay them.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)