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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

~Frederick William Faber

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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

~Frederick William Faber

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Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

~Frederick William Faber

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Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

~Frederick William Faber

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They always win who side with God.

~Frederick William Faber

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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

~Frederick William Faber

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Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.

~Frederick William Faber

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Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

~Frederick William Faber

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

~Frederick William Faber

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It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

~Frederick William Faber

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Theologian

Born: June 28th, 1814

Died: September 26th, 1863

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