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The materials of the first temple were made ready in solitude. Those of the last also must be shaped in retirement; in the silence of the heart; in the quietness of home; in the practice of unostentatious duty.

— Henry Giles Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The spirit of contempt is the true spirit of Antichrist; for no other is more directly opposed to Christ.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Bearing bravely the evils that beset us, doing cheerfully the duties that are near, trusting in God, guided by Christ, fear shall not confound us in the way, and death shall find us ready.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Every thought willingly contemplated, every word meaningly spoken, every action freely done consolidates itself in the character, and will project; itself onward continually.

We are not to wait to be in preparing to be. We are not to wait to do in preparing to do, but to find in being and doing preparation for higher being and doing.

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