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“Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.”

“The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.”

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“There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more — there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.”

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Resonant Thoughts

"The first duty of a government is to be true to itself. This does not mean perfection, it means a plan to strive for perfection. It means loyalty to ideals. The ideals of America were set out in the D…"

— Calvin Coolidge

Politics1780–1853

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"All these freedoms and pleasures we enjoy as Americans were bestowed upon us, but they came at a great cost."

— Salvatore Giunta

Literature1967

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"The real point at issue always is Turkey in Europe – the great peninsula to the south of the Save and Danube. This splendid territory has the misfortune to be inhabited by a conglomerate of different …"

— Karl Marx

Philosophy1867–1894

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