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Not until right is founded upon reverence, will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love, will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles, will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal.

— 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.

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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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