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Think of a woman by the side of a dying sister, or a sick child, or a sorrowing friend, or a broken-hearted and broken-spirited man, without a word of heaven in her mouth — without so much as the ability to whisper "Our Father," or even to point her finger hopefully towards the stars.

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

Life is before you,— not earthly life alone, but life— a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

Power in its measure and degree is the measure of manhood.

The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life — the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

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