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Hark! Hark! my soul, angelic songs are swelling
O’er earth’s green fields and ocean’s wave-beat shore;
How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling
Of that new life when sin shall be no more!

— Frederick William Faber Hymns (1871)

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Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Spiritual Conferences (1859)

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

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We must have passed through life very unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

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To children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

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Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

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