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- If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
- All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is…
- Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
- To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize,…
- He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask…
- It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the…
- One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and…
- The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay,…
- In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
- Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.
- But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the…
- We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of…
- In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
- Attitudes are more important than facts.
- The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given…
- When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that…
- It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
- People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would…
- We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What…
- To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly…
- The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still,…
- Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that…
- What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?…
- I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my…
- I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle