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A comptemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the Divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise. - [Action] A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise. - [Contemplation] A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man. - [Impulse] All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between these extremes. - [Extremes] Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as possible on the dark and the base. - [Beauty] Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not. - [Hypocrisy] It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon as what is. - [Preaching] Power rests in tranquillity. - [Repose] The heart must be divorced from its idols. Age does a great deal in curing the man of his frenzy; but if God has a special work for a man, he takes a shorter and sharper course with him. This grievous loss is only a further and more expensive education for the work of the ministry; it is but saying more closely, "Will you pay the price?" - [Discipline] The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. - [Infidelity] The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it. - [Preaching] To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool. - [Forethought] We erect the idol self, and not only wish others to worship, but worship ourselves. - [Selfishness] When two goats met on a bridge which was too narrow to allow either to pass or return, the goat which lay down that the other might walk over it was a finer gentleman than Lord Chesterfield. - [Politeness]
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