A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Carlos Wilcox

2 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Tempests may shake our dwellings and dissipate our commerce, but they scourge before them the lazy elements, which otherwise would stagnate into pestilence. Be thy best thoughts to work divine addressed ; Do something, - do it soon — with all thy might; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God Himself inactive were no longer blessed.— filed under Action
The best way for a man to get out of a lowly position is to be conspicuously effective in it. Rouse to some work of high and holy love, And thou an angel's happiness shalt know.— filed under Earnestness
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