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“For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.”

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Health and Education http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17437/17437-h/17437-h.htm, The Science of Health (1874).

“I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences."”

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Origine: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 279.

“Would that we two were lying
Beneath the churchyard sod,
With our limbs at rest in the green earth's breast,
And our souls at home with God.”

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The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act ii, scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father — that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for — if you will receive it — when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.”

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Origine: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.

“Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.”

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Origine: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.

“The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.”

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Origine: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 147.

“Let us ask ourselves seriously and honestly, " What do I believe after all? What manner of man am I after all? What sort of show would I make after all, if the people around me knew my heart and all my secret thoughts?" What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?”

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Origine: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.

“Toil is the true knight's pastime.”

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The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act i, scene ii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.”

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Origine: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 265.

“For men must work, and women must weep,
And there's little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning.”

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The Three Fishers http://www.bartleby.com/246/572.html (1851), st. 1.

“Changeless march the stars above,
Changeless morn succeeds to even;
And the everlasting hills,
Changeless watch the changeless heaven.”

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The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act II, scene 2.

“Let us be content to do little, if God sets us at little tasks. It is but pride and self-will which says, "Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?"”

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Origine: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 388.

“They rowed her in across the rolling foam,
The cruel crawling foam,
The cruel hungry foam,
To her grave beside the sea:
But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home
Across the sands of Dee.”

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The Sands of Dee, st. 4.

“Science frees us in many ways…from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.”

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Sermon, The Meteor Shower http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/wtlf10h.htm (November 26, 1866),

“Ah, my friends, we must look out and around to see what God is like. It is when we persist in turning our eyes inward, and prying curiously over our own imperfections, that we learn to make God after our own image, and fancy that our own darkness and hardness of heart are the patterns of His light and love.”

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Origine: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 257.

“Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.”

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Origine: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 262.

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What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?

P. 276.
Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

“I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw [in Ireland] . . . I don't believe they are our fault. . . . But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much. . . .”

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In a letter written from Markree Castle, Sligo to his wife dated July 4th 1860. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memoirs https://archive.org/details/charleskingsleyh00kingiala/page/308 (1877)

“Don't holla till you are out of the wood. This is a night for praying rather than boasting.”

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Hereward the wake, 1866.

“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”

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