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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 12, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 20.

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DUTIES are ours : events are God's.
Solitude shows us what we should be: society what we are.
Recollection is the life of religion.
The grandest operations, both in nature and in grace, are the most silent and imperceptible.
Every man should aim to do one thing well.
If a good man cannot prevent evil, he will hang heavy on its wings, and retard its progress.
It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter, to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.
The way of every man is declaration of the end of that man.
Wisdom prepares for the worst: but folly leaves the worst for that day when it comes.
We treat sensible and present things as realities, and future and eternal things as fables: whereas the reverse should be our habits.
There are but two states in the world which may be pronounced happy—either that of the man who rejoices in the light of God's countenance, or that of him who mourns after it.