Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
From Charles Kingsley
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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