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Futurity is the proper abode of hope and fear, with all their train and progeny of subordinate apprehensions and desires.

How many casualties and difficulties are there that we dread as insupportable mischiefs, which, upon farther thoughts, we find to be mercies and benefits?

Life is a navigation; we are perpetually wallowing and dashing one against another; sometimes we suffer shipwreck, but we are always in danger and in expectation of it.

war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master, that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.

Even in the same family the gap is not so great; the wound closes up sooner than we should expect.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

The pure men of old slept without dreams, and waked without anxiety.

On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been.

The aim of moral discipline is to purify the heart from the rust of passion and resentment, till, like a clear mirror, it reflects the light of God.

At first sight there is something surprising in this strange unrest of so many happy men, restless in the midst of abundance.

It tends to isolate them from each other, to concentrate every man's attention upon himself; and it lays open the soul to an inordinate love of material gratification.

Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.

A race cannot be purified from without.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.