William Mountford Quotes
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I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless…
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Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as…
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Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to…
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... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.
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To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.
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With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death is a great act of…
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To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he…
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This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
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