Suggestion, Volume 9

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Suggestion Publishing Company, 1902

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Page 163 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 157 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 39 - IT is not work that kills men ; it is worry. "Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids ; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Page 157 - Write your name in kindness, love and mercy, on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
Page 64 - Holy Reality ! We BELIEVE in thee that thou art EVERYWHERE present. We really believe it. Blessed Reality, we do not pretend to believe, think we believe, believe that we believe. WE BELIEVE. Believing that Thou art everywhere present, we believe that Thou art in this patient's stomach, in every fibre, in every cell, in every atom ; that Thou art the sole, only Reality of that stomach. Heavenly, Holy Reality, we will...
Page 199 - Our breath keeps the life a going through the nose when we are asleep. Boys that stay in a room all day should not breathe. They should wait till they get out of doors.
Page 196 - If you strike a thorn or rose. Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin! "Taint no use to sit and whine, When the fish ain't on your line, Bait your hook and keep on tryin' — Keep a-goin ! When the weather kills your crop, Keep a-goinl When you tumble from the top. Keep a-goin! S'pose you're out o' every dime, Gettin' broke ain't any crime. Tell the world you're feelin
Page 68 - are a guide in youth and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things; compose our cares and our passions; and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Page 137 - You gave on the way a pleasant smile And thought no more about it; It cheered a life that was sad the while That might have been wrecked without it; And so for the smile and its fruitage fair You'll reap a palm sometime — somewhere.
Page 154 - The universe pays every man in his own coin; if you smile, it smiles upon you in return; if you frown, you will be frowned at; if you sing, you will be invited into gay company; if you think, you will be entertained by thinkers; if you love the world, and earnestly seek for the good therein, you will be surrounded by loving friends, and nature will pour into your lap the treasures of the earth.— ZIMMERMAN.

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