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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.