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Hope proves man deathless. It is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

— Henry Melvill

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There is not one of you whose actions do not operate on the actions of others — operate, we mean, in the way of example.

The Bible tells me explicitly that Christ was God; and it tells me, as explicitly that Christ was man. It does not go on to state the modus or manner of the union.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I learn the depth to which I have sunk from the length of the chain let down to up-draw me. I ascertain the mightiness of the ruin by examining the machinery for restoration.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Indifference, if let alone, will produce obduracy; and obduracy, if let alone, will produce torment.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The mysteries of the Bible should teach us, at one and the same time, our nothingness and our greatness; producing humility, and animating hope. I bow before these mysteries.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

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