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A mother’s love that shrinks not when man cowers is a vivid picture in Chapin’s words. He writes that true convictions are proven only when something is sacrificed, and that every great truth arrives with a shadow of sorrow. He also sees loss of wealth as a call to renewed effort, not a final defeat.

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Neutral men are the devil's allies.

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Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

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This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

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Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

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Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

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A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

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The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

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There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows…

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For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

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Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

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Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the…

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No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers,…

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The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice,…

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Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast…

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Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on…

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Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him,…

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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…

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A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of…

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When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his…

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The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes,…

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The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have…

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He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares…

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Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The…

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Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.…

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Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be…

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There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over…

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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…

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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

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Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate…

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Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a…

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Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the…

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No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

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A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to…

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of…

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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…

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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…

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Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of…

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God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time…

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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…

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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…

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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

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Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses…

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Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

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

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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…

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There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

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

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Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

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The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech…

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No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows…

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It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

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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…

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There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is…

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