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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden. - Phillips Brooks Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It may be proper for all to remember that they ought not to raise expectations which it is not lit their power to satisfy; and that it is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame than flame sinking into smoke. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short. - Samuel Rutherford More hearts pine away in secret anguish for the want of kindness from those who should be their comforters than for any other calamity in life. - Edward Young
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