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The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

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Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

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So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

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It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

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The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

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So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

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Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Theologian

Born: April 13th, 1828

Died: December 21st, 1889

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