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Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven. Ellen G. White

Music Justice Mercy Every Benevolence Makes Heaven Heavenly Act Deed

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion. Ellen G. White

Religion Prayer Soul Secret Neglect

When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music. Ellen G. White

Music God Faith Prayer Conversation Together People Young Take Allowed Sing Terrible Devotion Although Frequently Frivolous Curse Dishonor Place Young People Choice Professed Assemble Christians

Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined. Ellen G. White

Love Alone Selfish Win Result Will Duty Soften Neglected Willful Must Similar Properly Blended Stern Headstrong Make Disciplined Without Left May Children Order While Stand Perverse

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences. Ellen Key

Life Man Woman Women Conflict Men Intimidated Has-Been Insight Life Experiences Purity Between Conception Learn Because Been Womanly Confessions Experiences Conventional Regard Justly Should Deep Her Desired

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. Emil Ludwig

Love Time Relationship Surrender People Decision Kiss First Love Story Changes Final Strongly More Crucial Most Because Within First Time Than Any Story Much Even Two Two People

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys. Emma Bull

Word See Use Coincidence

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer

People Free Other Imitate Please Each

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. Eric Hoffer

Love Humanity Easier Neighbor Than To Love Whole

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. Erin Morgenstern

You Halloween Own Believe Nights Worlds Air Considering Those Spirits Veil Roaming Between Feels Said Least Existence Different Acknowledge Whether Your Used Such Things Eve Even Bright Thin Things

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able. F. Sionil Jose

Become Think Earth Enslaved Must Able Only Shallow Glitter Goods Because Material Materialism Grab Gold Which While Us Much Gross Reason Therefore Satisfy

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral. F. Sionil Jose

Remember Political Poverty Moral Economic Never Always Issue

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship Business Men Own Profit Sum Those Adjustment Mutual Steady Given Only Propose Simply Involved Arrangement Self-Love Interchange Which Social Interests Derive Services Received

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it. Garrison Keillor

Coffee Girl Nothing Thinking Table About Having Wrong Like Pistol Stop Them Bikini Your Hard Coffee Table Loaded

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. Garrison Keillor

You Father Face Daughter Nothing Says Runs Something Shakes Hostage He Puts Hot Sons Arm Over His Off Pat Frying Them Ask Shoulder Turns Ground Daddy Her Butter Need Pan

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love Religion More Affair Love Affair Your Less Theory

New roads; new ruts. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Ruts Roads New

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Gilbert K. Chesterton

You Burden Free Hump Freeing Him Camel His May Being

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life World Seen Mainly Journalism Another Fiction Newspapers Popular

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Government Democracy Badly Aristocracy Educated Uneducated While Means

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