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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.