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There is not a heart but has its moments of longing,— yearning for something better, nobler, holier than it knows now.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.

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When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.

Life Thoughts (1858)

He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Lectures to Young Men (1844)

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

Life Thoughts (1858)

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it while they hear.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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