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“Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.”

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William Morley Punshon (May 29, 1824 - April 14, 1881) was a British historian and archaeologist known for his research into ancient civilizations. His career category is unknown due to limited information. more

“Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest act, and by which the heart of each individual believer may be reminded of his dearest friend. You, who have learned to love the Saviour, will prize His ordinance for the Saviour's sake. You who rejoice in the salvation purchased by His dying, will not fail with gratitude and faith to show the Lord's death until He come.”

“Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.”

Source: Lectures and Sermons

“Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus.”

Men Children Young Jesus Divorce Intellect Young Man Heroic Ridicule Martyr Altars Piety Sophistry

Book:John Bunyan, a lecture

Source: John Bunyan, a lecture

“Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.”

Men May Journey Cold Principled Tropics

Book:Lectures and Sermons

Source: Lectures and Sermons

“A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.”

Mind Littles Attention Quality Ought Add Concentration Conductor Incessant Presence Of Mind Chauffeurs

Author:Sergei Rachmaninoff

“My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.”

Hands Poor Dear Farewell

Author:Sergei Rachmaninoff

“Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one - that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process.”

“Raeder, the political admiral, stealthily built up the German Navy in defiance of the Versailles Treaty, and then put it to use in a series of aggressions which he had taken a leading part in planning.”

Use Political Taken Built Series Planning Aggression Navy Defiance Treaties Admiral Versailles

Author:Erich Raeder

“Shoulder ... shake ... a little lingerie!”

Littles Shoulders Shakes Lingerie

Author:Bill Raftery

“For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.”

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

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