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The day of life spent in honest and benevolent labor comes in hope to an evening calm and lovely; and though the sun declines, the shadows that he leaves behind are only to curtain the spirit unto rest.

— Henry Giles

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The spirit of contempt is the true spirit of Antichrist; for no other is more directly opposed to Christ.

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Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element.

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Bearing bravely the evils that beset us, doing cheerfully the duties that are near, trusting in God, guided by Christ, fear shall not confound us in the way, and death shall find us ready.

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Every thought willingly contemplated, every word meaningly spoken, every action freely done consolidates itself in the character, and will project; itself onward continually.

We are not to wait to be in preparing to be. We are not to wait to do in preparing to do, but to find in being and doing preparation for higher being and doing.

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