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12 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.— filed under Affliction

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.— filed under Holiness

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a mar. to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.— filed under Humor

Sheaves. Humility. The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.— filed under Humor

There is a sweet joy which comes to us through sorrow.— filed under Joy

Imitated from the Persian. Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith. Little faith will get very great mercies, but great faith still greater.— filed under Prayer

Sympathy is especially a Christian's duty.— filed under Talk

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. BISHOP SOUTH. Vol. VI. Sermon 10. Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.— filed under Temptation

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.— filed under Trials

Sheaves. Privileges of Trial. There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.— filed under Trials

Sheaves. Cross-Bearers. Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.— filed under Trials

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.— filed under Wisdom