A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.Frederick William Robertson
It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
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We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
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Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
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