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12 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall,- Some days must be dark and dreary.— filed under Affliction
What seem to us but dim funereal tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. -— filed under Affliction
O thou sculptor, painter, poet, Take this lesson to thy heart; That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.— filed under Duty
Nothing with God can be accidental.— filed under God's Presence
O thou child of many prayers ! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares ! Care and age come unawares !— filed under Life
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.— filed under Little Things
Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!— filed under Love
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning, - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.— filed under Morality
Poor, sad Humanity Through all the dust and heat Turns back with bleeding feet, By the weary road it came, Unto the simple thought By the Great Master taught, And that remaineth still, Not he that repeateth the name, But he that doeth the will!— filed under Obedience
O day of rest! How beautiful, how fair, How welcome to the weary and the old ! Day of the Lord! and truce to earthly care ! Day of the Lord, as all our days should be.— filed under Sabbath
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.— filed under Sabbath
Rather walking with Him by faith, Than walking alone in the light. O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on.— filed under Trust In Christ