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Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world. Seek to make trade bright with a spotless integrity, and business lustrous with the beauty of holiness.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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