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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
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Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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
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Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
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