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• In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

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  Men, Evil, Cures

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• I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

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  Believe, Eggs, Oval

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• The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

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  Prayer, Men, Answers

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• Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

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  Sympathy, Rose, Feelings

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• Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

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  Civilization, Mind, Progress

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• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

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  Courage, Men, Bravery

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• Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

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  Faith, Heart, People

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• A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

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  Uplifting, Stars, Self Esteem

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• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

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  Life, Happiness, Home

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

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• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

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  Xenophobia, Justice, Diversity

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• Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.

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  Beautiful, God, Running

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• We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

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  Faith, Honesty, Doubt

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• Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

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  Truth, Law, Progress

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• Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

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  Life, Ideas, Age

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• It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.

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  Prayer, Spring, Lying

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• The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

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  Heaven, Crowns, Worn

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• There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

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  Self, World, Martyr

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• Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

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  Despair, Depth, Reckless

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• To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

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  Eye, Mystery, Splendid

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• How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.

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  Girl, Men, Careers

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• It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

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  Flower, Sunshine, Amusement

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• Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

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  Distance, Light, Purple

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

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• The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

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  Children, Spring, Grief

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

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• A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

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  Christian, Men, Evil

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• The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

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  Christmas, Sweet, Heart

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