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The essential elements of giving are power and love — activity and affection — and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

— Mark Hopkins Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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