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Live for something! Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with, year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind, as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.

— Thomas Chalmers Misattributed P. 243. in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

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This character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.

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I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.

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O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

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