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This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
All noblest things are religious,— not temples and martyrdoms only, but the best books, pictures, poetry, statues, and music.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
And so among the ruins of our pride, we grow to be loving children of the Most High.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
At ease in a world in which my Lord was such a sufferer!
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
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