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Old age is the repose of life,—the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

— Robert Collyer

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Faith...makes the discords of the present, the harmonies of the future.

Atheism could never be an institution in this country; it could never be more than a destitution.

The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain grain of extravagance, as beautiful in some of its aspects as the extravagance of nature in June.

God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.

Keep your grip on good principles and good conduct, and you will be men of good name and of good fortune.

Robert Collyer to Young Men (1888)

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