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Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.

— Robert Leighton Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.

God’s way of forgiving is thorough and hearty—both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His.

Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Faith is an humble, self-denying grace; it makes the Christian nothing in himself, and all in God.

Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little, and others much.

Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

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