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The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
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The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
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Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.
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The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
