There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, … - Richard Chenevix Trench

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Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Richard Chenevix Trench

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

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Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

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None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

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We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It 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.

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