It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

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The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the west; and the sun never sets that it does not shine on some of his dominions.

Jack was embarrassed--never hero more, And as he knew not what to say, he swore.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.