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382 A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on. —.

Life is great if properly viewed in any aspect; it is mainly great when viewed in connection with the world to come. —.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility. —.

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing. —.

Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul. —.

Man's life is so interwoven with the grand life of his Maker that it admits of no adequate or rational interpretation except when the Creator as Supreme and the creatures of His hand as subordinate, are seen working in unison. —.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better. —.

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