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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul.

— Hannah More

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Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Most of the Beatitudes which the Infinite Compassion pronounced have the sorrows of earth for their subject, but the joys of earth for their completion.

In men this blunder still you find,—
All think their little set mankind.

Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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