these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in
overwork of the brain--LYTTON.
The rule is simple: Be sober and temperate, and you will be
healthy.--FRANKLIN.
HEART.--Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the
issues of life.--PROVERBS 4:23.
The poor too often turn away unheard,
From hearts that shut against them with a sound
That will be heard in heaven.
--LONGFELLOW.
He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.--BAILEY.
All offences come from the heart.--SHAKESPEARE.
Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly.
Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing,
but constant in looking to Him.--RICHTER.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.--MATTHEW 12:34.
Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
--JOHN LYLY.
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is
pretty certain that she has his.--G.D. PRENTICE.
The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always
harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only
be a greater knave as he grows older.--CHESTERFIELD.
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.--GIBBON.
The heart that has once been bathed in love's pure fountain retains
the pulse of youth forever.--LANDOR.
A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the
warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness
and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock
and mosses.--WHITTIER.
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the
heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.--TRENCH.
There are treasures laid up in the heart,--treasures of charity,
piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him
beyond death, when he leaves this world.--BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who
can know it?--JEREMIAH 17:9.
HEAVEN.--The generous who is always just, and the just who is always
generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.--LAVATER.
The redeemed shall walk there.--ISAIAH 35:9.
If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here,
which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be
forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the
everlasting world!
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