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• Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance…
• If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been…
• For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the…
• Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten…
• Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
• Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.
• Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
• None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only…
• We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that…
• There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and…
• The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the…

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