"God is glorified, not by our groans, but……" — Edwin Percy Whipple
"God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings."
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Edwin Percy Whipple
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28 Quotes by Edwin Percy Whipple
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings…
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is…
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius…
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
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Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one…
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Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill…
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it…
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Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
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Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when…
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Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape…
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
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