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Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.

— 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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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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