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The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The attempt to make one false impression on the mind of a friend respecting ourselves is of the nature of perfidy. Sincerity should be observed most scrupulously.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning and evening; let our days begin and end with God.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The more discussion the better, if passion and personality be eschewed; and discussion, even if stormy, often winnows truth from error—a good never to be expected in an uninquiring age.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrow and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self-determination. The best books have most beauty.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
From the loss of our friends teach us how to enjoy and improve those who remain.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Religion, if it be true, is central truth; and all knowledge which is not gathered round it, and quickened and illuminated by it, is hardly worthy the name.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Books are the true levellers. They give to all who faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Precept is instruction written in the sand, the tide flows over it and the record is gone. Example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul, when arranged in this their natural and fit attire.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The sense of duty is the fountain of human rights. In other words, the same inward principle which teaches the former bears witness to the latter. Duties and rights must stand and fall together.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Whatever high station you may be placed in by fortune, remember this, that God will not estimate you by the office, but by the manner in which you fill it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A true friend embraces our objects as his own. We feel another mind bent on the same end, enjoying it, ensuring it, reflecting it, and delighting in our devotion to it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)