Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
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Language has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.Richard C. Trench
We must not conceive of prayer as overcoming God's reluctance, but as laying hold of His highest willingness.
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