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It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

All the toys that infatuate men, and which they play for

To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.

Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, so that the longer we can stay among these things so much the more is snatched from inevitable Time.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

I know that peace does not come through wishing for it--that there is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged diplomacy.

Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

It doesn't matter to me any longer how long I live, what matters to me most is how I live.

Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.

Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing

It may consist with perpetual failure, and find exercise in the continued chase.

To ask to see some fruit of our endeavour is but a transcendental way of serving for reward; and what we take to be contempt of self is only greed of hire.

Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.

he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.