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Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

— William Morley Punshon Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; — it shall go ringing on through the ages.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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