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Quotes by F. W. Farrar
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted words "failure" and "success," and measure them by the eternal, not by the earthly standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be preëminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross - was that a failure? Nay, my brethren, it was the death of Him who lived that we might follow His footsteps, it was the life, it was the death of the Son of God.— filed under Christian Life
Lord, from success, its noise and glare, And often shallow life, Guide me to where Thy soldiers lie, Faint, wounded in the strife; Give me a brother's heart, I pray, To watch and help the weak to-day. We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden - that is human sympathy.— filed under Sympathy