Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

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To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

True happiness springs from moderation.