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Gc 974.702 G37q Quotations collected by the ladies of the Presbyterian
Quotations Collected by the Ladies of the Presbyterian Church, Gilbertsville, New York.
Allen County Public Library 900 Webster Street PO Box 2270 Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270
WM. M. DEITZ, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, GILBERTSVILLE, N. Y.
" Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it."
Emerson.
Rev: Samuel J. White. It's no in titles nor in rank ; It's no in wealth like Lon'on bank, To purchase peace and rest ; It's no in making muckle, mair : It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest : Nae treasures, nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang ; The heart's ay the part ay, That makes us right or rang. Robert Burns.
Franz B. Kellogg.
Diligence is the mother of good luck. Franklin.
Mrs. Anna M. Meeker.
Lock that which moves thee most, Within thine own heart's shrine And give to God the key ; 'Tis only His and thine.
And tell alone to God Thine inmost doubts and fears, He is the only friend Who understands and hears.
Janet Remington.
Mrs. Rachel E. Bryant.
Who thinks the story is all told at twenty ? Let them live on and try. Mrs. A. D. Whitney.
E. C. Brewer. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Emerson.
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John B. Stebbins.
Every man finds that the hardest knots he has to chop through, are those which have been waiting in his own woodshed, while easier work was done. Edward Everett Hale.
Mrs. M. E. Donaldson.
I don't say it in frivolous or sentimental spirit in the least, but I do affirm that there is hardly any juncture in life when one is not better off for having a man about. Kate Douglass Wiggin.
Caroline G. C. Harris.
Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul.
Longfellow.
Cornelia M. Metcalf.
Lo, here hath been dawning
Another blue day ; Think,-will thou let it slip useless away ? Out of eternity this new day was born, Into eternity at night will return.
Behold it afore time, no eye ever did ; Soon it forever from all eyes is hid : Lo, here hath been dawning another blue day,
Think,-will thou let it slip useless away ? Carlyle.
Robert Ecob.
Choose the best life, and habit bye and bye will make you like it the best.
Epictetus.
C. P. Root.
If I would have my name endure, I'll write it on the hearts of men. Horace Alger.
Carrie Converse.
I find the great thing in this world, is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
O. W. Holmes.
Mrs. C. M. Watson. With God go even over the seas, Without Him, not over the threshold. Russian Proverb.
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Helen H. Freer. Mrs. Calvin Place.
To thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Shakespeare.
Samuel Woodlands. What moistens the lips, what brightens the eye, What calls back the past like a rich pumpkin pie ? Whittier.
Elizabeth J. Dorman.
No work begun shall ever pause for death. Browning.
Mrs. Mary J Sumner. (In Memoriam.)
The least flower, with brimming cup may stand,
And share its dew-drop with another near. Mrs. Browning.
Nathan M. Myrick.
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night ; And grief may bide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. Bryant.
Edith Bentley. I have sought rest everywhere, and found it nowhere, save in a little corner with a little book. Thomas a'Kempis.
Mrs. E. V. Palmer.
He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small : For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Coleridge.
Mrs. Frances D. Freer. But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger.
Longfellow
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Mrs. Sam'l C. Gilbert. (In Memoriam.)
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation ; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth ! Isaiah 52:7.
Albert White.
Though mountain ridge and lake divide our bounds,
And every Canton's ruled by its own laws ; Yet are we but one race, born of one blood, And all are children of one common home. Schiller.
Eliza Thorp Mead. Pleasures like flowers, may wither and decay,
And yet the sort perennial may be. Longfellow.
Adelia D. H. Collins.
"He that wrongs his friend wrongs himself more."
Lucy Beebe Blackman.
"For life's helm rocks to the windward and lee And time is as wind, and as waves are we ; And song is as foam that the sea-winds fret; Though the thought at its heart should be deep as the sea."
Gertrude Moody Cadwallader.
The hills are dearest which our childish feet Have climbed the earliest, And the streams most sweet Are ever those at which our young lips drank, Stooped to their waters on the grassy bank. Whittier.
Jennie Carmer.
"Are you almost disgusted With life, little man ? I will tell you a wonderful trick That will bring you contentment, If anything can --- Do something, for somebody, quick !"
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Amelia Hurlbutt.
In parts superior what advantage lies ? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise ? 'Tis but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults and feel our own. Pope.
Mrs. E. E. Halbert.
"Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
Hannah A. Frone.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love ; even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love. John 15:10.
Helen G. Ecob.
The reward of doing one duty is the power to perform another.
Ben Azai.
Emma M. Beebe.
" Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow, Then draw it to the head, and let it go."
S. R. Moody.
'Tis pleasant sure to see one's name in print; A book's a book although there's nothing in't.
Byron.
Augusta Childs.
Remember now and always that life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality based upon eternity, and encompassed by eternity. Find out your task : Stand to it : The night cometh when no man can work.
Carlyle.
N. D. Musson.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain.
Anna Bushnell Root. Hope the best, but hold the Present, fatal daughter of the Past,
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hour will last.
Tenny son.
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Mrs. John Scotten. (In Memoriam.)
All the gold we leave behind us When we turn to dust again (Though our avarice may blind us,) We have gathered quite in vain ; Since we neither can direct it, By the winds of fortune tossed, Nor in other worlds expect it ; What we hoarded, we have lost.
But each merciful oblation- (Seed of pity wisely sown,) What we gave in self-negation, We may safely call our own ; For the treasure freely given Is the treasure that we hoard, Since the angels keep in Heaven What is lent unto the Lord !
John G. Saxe.
Charles R. Brewer.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
Lamb.
Elizabeth S. Frone.
No good deed, no genuine sacrifice is ever wasted. If there be good in it, God will use it for His own holy purposes ; and whatever of ignorance or weakness or mis- take was mingled with it will drop away, as the withered petals drop away when the full flower has blown.
Canon Farrar.
J. Merton Moore.
" Longest joys won't last forever, Make the most of every day. Youth and beauty time will sever, But content hath no decay."
Mrs. Mary Hurd Hurlbutt. All's well that ends well.
Shakespeare.
John R. Brewer. Accuse not Nature ; she hath done her part : Do thou but thine. Milton,
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Frances G. Denny.
And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame ; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame ; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the thing as he sees it, for the God of things as they are !
Rudyard Kipling.
Rev. C. M. Livingston.
And when I am to die, 'Receive me'-I'll cry, For Jesus has loved me, I cannot tell why : But this I do find, we two are so joined,
He'll not be in glory and leave me behind. Anon.
C. B. Robinson.
Every hour, that fleets so slowly, Has its task to do or bear ; Luminous the crown, and holy, When each gein is set with care. A. A. Proctor.
Mrs. M. A. Brown. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon to-morrow, God will help thee bear what comes Of joy or sorrow. Mrs. Mary F. Butts.
Frances E. Root. There are nettles everywhere,
But smooth green grasses are more common still ; The blue of Heaven is larger than the cloud. Anon.
Mary S. Donaldson. (In Memoriam.)
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. Sir T. Brown. .
Mrs. Charles A. Carl.
What is life on earth but a preparation for our real life in Heaven ? Frederick W. Taber.
Mrs. C. A. Daniels.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. Goldsmith.
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Mrs. C. P. Root.
Talent developes itself in solitude ; character in the stream of life.
Goethe.
Cornelia Bentley Leet.
Be what thou seemeth ; live thy creed, Hold up to earth the torch divine. Be what thou prayest to be made, Let the great Master's steps be thine. Fill up each hour with what will last, Buy up the moments as they go ; The life above when this is past, Is the ripe fruit of the life below.
Anon.
Lewis M. Donaldson.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be : Now put foundations under them. Thoreau.
Mary Morgan Brewer.
Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell : That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Tennyson.
Sarah M. Halbert. Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. Scott.
Marguerite Morse.
It isn't the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone, That gives you a bit of heartache At the setting of the sun. Margaret E. Sangster.
Charles P. Root, Jr. You may notch it on de palms as a mighty resky plan, To make your judgment on de close dat kivers up a man. Anon.
Mrs. Mary A. Matthews.
So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psalm 90:12
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Mrs. Mary E. Babcock.
We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade.
The tissues of the life to be We weave with colors all our own. And in the field of destiny We reap as we have sown.
Whittier.
Ellen Miller Donaldson.
Yet here's this youngster on my knee Knows all the things I used to know. To think ! I once was wise as he But that was very long ago. Eugene Field.
Otis Lyon. 'Tis a maxim of the schools That vanity's the food of fools, The nectar on which they feed, The motive power of the life they lead.
Olive E. Gilbert.
I know, as my life grows older, And mine eyes have clearer sight, That under each rank wrong, somewhere There lies the root of right ; That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed ; But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is, is best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Dr. George H. Nellis.
Away, where stretches that hazy line, Where the town and country meet, That line where the city's confines lie, And begin the meadows so sweet, It seems to me that a mystic spell Possesses my heart and brain,
Where I cross the bound'ry and enter a while To walk in nature's domain. And wonder if waiting at Heaven's gate, With all life's battles complete, I shall not feel as I do when I stand Where the town and country meet. Modeste H. Jordan.
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Dr. James A. Freer.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can, this is the service of a friend.
R. W. Emerson.
Elizabeth Butler.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own ; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
John Dryden.
Joseph T. Gilbert. 1783-1867
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
The Mohammedan.
Rev. James H. Ecob.
Forgive others as if you were the great- est of sinners.
Live as if you, yourself, were never to be forgiven.
Charles Ralsey Sumner.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you. Every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
Kingsley. J. H. Gilbert.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, "Thou must," The youth replies, " I can."
Emerson.
Mrs. E. C. Tobey.
The early bird has been catching the worm for many generations but I never heard that the late bird starved for lack of worms : And what of the owl and bat who do not get up at all till honest folks are in bed ?
Gail Hamilton.
Jessie Comstock Edgar.
A quiet mind content to rest In God's sufficiency and take this world, Not dabbling all the Master's work to death With our small interference, God is God.
E. H. Sill.
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Mrs. Marcia B. LeSuer. If all the pity and love untold Could scatter abroad in coins of gold, There would not be, on the whole round earth One hungry heart, nor one wretched hearth.
And, oh, if the kind words never said Could bloom into flowers, and spread and shed Their sweetness out on the common air, The breath of heaven would be everywhere. Mary Ange DeVere.
James K. Webb.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Ecl. 9:10.
F. H. Donaldson.
He that seeks trouble never misses.
George Herbert.
Mrs. Solon Benedict.
The happiness of love is in action ; its test is what one is willing to do for others. Lew Wallace.
Marcia Hurd Dunning. Wiser it were to welcome and make ours Whate'er of good, though small the pres- ent brings, Kind greetings, sunshine, song of birds, and flowers,
With a child's pure delight in little things. R. C. French.
Mrs. Emily B. Webb. Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Matt. 6:3.
Mrs. Emma Coe Page. The dear Lord's best interpreters Are humble human souls ; The gospel of a life Is more than books or scrolls.
Whittier.
Mrs. Mary Millard Musson. Friend with friend or husband with wife, Makes hand in hand the passage of life. Bryant.
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Antoinette Bryant Hervey. Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; Tis hard to part when friends are dear ; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ;
Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not "Good night," but in some brighter clime Bid me "Good morning."
Mrs. Barbauld.
Francis E. Brewer.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at. Holmes.
John Rawlings.
There are glimpses of Heaven granted to us by every act, or thought, or word which raises us above ourselves.
Dean Stanley.
Gladys Gilbert.
The tissues of the life to be We weave with colors all our own, And in the field of destiny We reap as we have sown.
Whittier.
Mrs. Hobart C. Tobey. There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pains. R. H. Stoddard.
Miss A. Rodman.
A soft answer turneth away wrath ; but grievous words stir up anger. Proverbs 15:1.
Mrs. Jane S. Coe.
Ah, what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. Longfellow.
D. S. Bassett.
" Surely if the cross says anything, it says that apparent defeat is real victory, and that there is a heaven for those who have nobly and truly failed on earth."
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Carrie E. Wallin.
I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson.
Mrs. Sarah Birdsall.
One by one thy duties wait thee ; Let thy whole strength go to each ; Let no future dream elate thee, Learn thou first what these can teach.
A. A. Proctor.
S. C. Stoddard.
So live, that when the summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the dapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Bryant.
Walter Bryant Hervey. The friendly cow all red and white I love with all my heart ; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple tart.
Stevenson.
H. D. Donaldson.
And I oft have heard defended, Little said is soonest mended.
Wither.
Rev. J. Wallace Young.
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, .In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. Joaquin Miller.
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Anna E. Coe.
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
Drummond.
Charles Dunning.
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing many things.
Carlyle.
Thomas A. White.
If I were asked to sum up, in the most comprehensive manner, two of the greatest lessons which Christ came to teach us, I think that they might be expressed in these words : The Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
Canon Farrar.
Fitch Gilbert.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, Nothing so gentle as real strength. Francis de Sales.
Florence Musson.
For brevity is very good, When we are, or are not understood. Samuel Butler.
Mrs. O. E. Taylor.
Away with the pleasure that is not par- taken ;
There is no enjoyment by one only ta'en ; I love in my mirth to see gladness awaken On lips and in eyes that reflect it again. William and Mary Hewit.
Mrs. Whitcomb.
Fair world ! These puzzled souls of ours grow weak
With beating their bruised wings against the rim
That bounds their utmost flying, when they seek
The distant and the dim.
We pant, we strain like birds against their wires ;
Are sick to reach the vast and the be- yond And what avails, if still to our desires Those far off gulfs respond.
Jean Ingelow.
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Florence Hurd.
We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. Longfellow.
Ernest Winans.
For the pansies send me back a thought.
Florence H. Myrick.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it.
Shakespeare.
Adelia Donaldson.
Silently one by one, in the infinite ineadows of Heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me- nots of the angels. Longfellow.
James Howland.
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psalms 25:10.
Bertha Bentley.
The path that leads to a loaf of bread Winds through the swamps of toil,
And the path that leads to a suit of clothes Goes through the flowerless soil.
And the path that leads to a loaf of bread And a suit of clothes is hard to tread. S. W. Foss.
D. A. Musson.
Thou art, O God the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee ; Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine. Moore.
Caroline L. Gilbert.
What shall I do to gain eternal life ? Discharge aright The simple dues with which each day is rife Yea, with thy might.
F. Von Schiller.
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Emma B. Cope Bassett. My business is not to make myself, But make the absolute best of what God made. Browning.
George Wells Comstock (In Memoriam.) To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and Heaven securely. Henry VanDyke.
Lydia Sayer Comstock (In Memoriam,)
She sees the best that glimmers thro' the worst, She feels the sun is hid but for a night. She spies the summer thro' the winter bud. Tennyson.
Mrs. M. E. Thorp.
True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, as each day goes by, Some little good, not in dreaming Of great things to do, by and by ; For whatever men say in their blindness And spite of the fancies of youth, There is nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Cary.
Mary E. Webster.
Enjoy the blessings of this day if God sends them, and the evils of it bear pa- tiently and sweetly ; for this day alone, is ours-we are dead to yesterday and we are not yet born to to-morrow.
Jeremy Taylor.
Lucius Hoag.
We may build more splendid habitations, Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculpture But we cannot buy with gold the old associations.
Longfellow.
Fitch Gilbert, Jr. But do you good to all As much as in you lieth. Tennyson.
D. S. Hurd.
In the Lord put I my trust.
Psalms 11:1
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Della D. Freer.
To seek is better than to gain, The fond hope dies as we attain ; Life's fairest things are those which seem, The best is that of which we dream. Whittier.
Frances Millard White. " If you your lips Would save from slips, Five things observe with care, Of whom you speak, To whom you speak, And how and when and where."
Mrs. Pamelia Woodlands.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray.
Arthur T. Freer.
Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place.
Longfellow.
May R. Myrick. Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. Denham.
Sarah Hurd Brewer.
Heaven and earth are threads of the same loom. Tennyson.
O. E. Taylor. The world was sad ; the garden was a wild : And man, the hermit, sigh'd till woman smiled.
Campbell.
John S Root. There is nothing that keeps its youth So far as I know, but a tree and truth. Holmes.
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Marion Murray-Swinyard.
Neither is life long enough for friend- ship. That is a serious and majestic affair, like a royal presence or a religion, and not a postilion's dinner to be eaten on the run. Emerson.
Walter L. Hervey.
Naked on parents' knees, a new born child, Weeping thou satst when all around thee smiled. So live, that, sinking to thy last long sleep, Thou then mayst smile while all around thee weep.
Sir William Jones.
Katherine M. Hoag. Frank R. Root.
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Whittier.
Mrs. Caroline C. Stoddard.
He who knows our frame is just, Merciful and compassionate ; And full of sweet assurance, And hope for all the language is, That He remembereth we are dust. Whittier.
Mrs. Emily Bentley Hays. The limit of life is brief, 'Tis the red in the red roseleaf, Tis the gold in the sunset sky, 'Tis the flight of a bird on high. Yet we may fill the space With such an infinite grace, That the red will vein all time, The gold through the ages shine, And the bird fly swift and straight To the lilies of God's own gate. Anon.
W. Scott Root.
I think it must somewhere be written, that the virtues of the mothers shall, occa- sionally, be visited on their children, as well as the sins of fathers. Dickens.
Minnie M. Donaldson,
If then thou dost not make use of the shield of patience ; thou shall not be long without wounds.
Thomas a'Kemp's.
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Mrs. Charlotte C. Davis. Truth is within ourselves : it takes no rise From outward things, what'er you may be- lieve There is an inmost center in us all, Where truth abides in fullness : And, to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence this imprisoned splendour may escape Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Robert Browning.
Mary A. Halbert.
Bear gently, suffer like a child, Nor be ashamed of tears, Kiss the sweet cross, and in thy heart Sing of the eternal years.
Frederick W. Faber.
Mrs. Millard Gray.
O Master, let me walk with Thee In lowly paths of service free ; Tell me thy secret ; help me bear The strain of toil, the fret of care ; Help me the slow of heart to move By some clear, winning word of love ; Teach me the wayward feet to stay, And guide them in the homeward way. Gledden.
Mrs. Thomas A. White.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has com- mon sense on the ground floor.
Holmes.
Eva P. Root.
He that loseth wealth, loseth much : he that loseth friends, loseth more : but he that loseth his spirits, loseth all. Spanish Maxim.
Ada L. Seward.
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart :- Never to believe anything bad about anybody, unless you know it to be true ; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is abso- lutely necessary and that God is listen- ing while you tell it.
Henry Van Dyke.
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Hannah Harris.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
Galations 5:22-23.
Elizabeth Abell Millard.
Where there is love there is reliance, and where there is reliance there is comfort for many ills of body mind and soul. F. M. Crawford.
Elizabeth E. Bryant.
All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist,
Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good nor power, Whose voice has gone forth: but each survives for the melodist,
When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
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