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• The essence of justice is mercy.

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  Essence, Justice, Mercy

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• Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

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  Stars, Moon, Light

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• Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.

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  Men, People, Liberty

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• No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

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  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Impatience never commanded success.

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  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

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  Life, Yield, Higher

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• In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

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  Passion, Evil, Secret

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• In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

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  World, Importance, Mere

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• Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

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  Evil, May, Coping

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• A life is black, whiten it as you will.

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  Life, Black, Life Is

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• A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

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  Spring, Wine, Mean

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• Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.

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  Book, Mirrors, Dust

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• The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

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  Exercise, Soul, Selfishness

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• If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

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  Weakness, Misery, Shame

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• Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

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  Death, Secret, Decay

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• The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

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  Fashion, Real, Leader

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

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  Music, Beautiful, Sublime

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• Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.

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  Thinking, Civilization, Ideas

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• It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.

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  Adversity, Fate, Cups

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• Even yet Christ Jesus has to lie out in waste places very often, because there is no room for him in the inn--no room for him in our hearts, because of our worldliness. There is no room for him even in our politics and religion. There is no room in the inn, and we put him in the manger, and he lies outside our faith, coldly and dimly conceived by us.

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  Jesus, Lying, Heart

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• It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

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  Death, Dust, Soul

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• Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

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  Stars, Eye, Dust

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 20), 1895.

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• Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

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  Life, Crucible, Life Is

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• Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.

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  Looks, World, Saws

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

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  Heart, Wool, Jewelry

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