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The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the Spirit of God.

— Charles Spurgeon

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The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Faith's Checkbook (1888)

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.

The Salt-Cellars (1885)

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

The Salt-Cellars (1885)

A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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