A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. - Orville Dewey
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.
- Orville Dewey
The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. - Orville Dewey
The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.
The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousan… - Orville Dewey
The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousan…
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place … - Orville Dewey
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place …
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. - Orville Dewey
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.
Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and dr… - Orville Dewey
Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and dr…
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, a… - Orville Dewey
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, a…
Politeness is practical Christianity. - Orville Dewey
Politeness is practical Christianity.
Occupied people are not unhappy people. - Orville Dewey
Occupied people are not unhappy people.
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