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but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.--CARLYLE.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.--COLTON.
When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.--J. SHIRLEY.
Our acts make or mar us,--we are the children of our own deeds. --VICTOR HUGO.
Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.--WHIPPLE.
ADVERSITY.--Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.--COLTON.
In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.--HORATIUS BONAR.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.--WASHINGTON IRVING.
A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. --SHAKESPEARE.
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes. --POMFRET.
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. --BOLINGBROKE.
On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet instruction flows. --DR. YOUNG.
When Providence, for secret ends, Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends; We must conclude it best it should be so, And not desponding or impatient grow. --POMFRET.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. --PROVERBS 24:10.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.--HORACE.
In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. --CRABBE.
The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction. --CHENEVIX.
There is healing in the bitter cup.--SOUTHEY.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.--BACON.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.--LYTTON.
Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.--HEBREWS 12:6.
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. --CHAPIN.
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.--SCHILLER.
AFFECTATION.--Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man.
We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect to have.--FROM THE FRENCH.
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. --ST. EVREMOND.
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.--LAVATER.
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. --HORACE MANN.
AFFECTION.--A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--DICKENS.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. --COLOSSIANS 3:2.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.--HAWTHORNE.
A solitary blessing few can find, Our joys with those we love are intertwined, And he whose wakeful tenderness removes The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves, Smooths not another's rugged path alone, But scatters roses to adorn his own.
Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant spot on the surface of the globe.
Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.--BEECHER.
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.--WILLIS.
AFFLICTION.--God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. --T.L. CUYLER.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.--PHILLIPS BROOKS.
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs.--RICHTER.
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.--GEORGE MACDONALD.
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