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I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

— Charles Spurgeon

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The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Faith's Checkbook (1888)

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.

The Salt-Cellars (1885)

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

The Salt-Cellars (1885)

A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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