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“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”
“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”
“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”
“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”
“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”
“The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.”
“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
“Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.”
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
“Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”
“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
“Suffering is part of the divine idea.”
“Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.”
“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”
“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”