“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.”
God“Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”
Love“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.”
God“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”
Sad“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”
Love“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
Wisdom“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
Love“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”
Death“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
Good“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
Leadership“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
Thanksgiving“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
Men“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”
Good“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.”
Knowledge“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.”
Work“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”
God“The dog is the god of frolic.”
God“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
Friendship“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
Inspirational“Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”
Love“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”
Inspirational“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
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