Francis Alexander Durivage Quotes
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There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.
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The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
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How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!
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To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.
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If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.
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The highest art is artlessness.
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The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.
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Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.
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