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“Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?”

Needs Heart Mean Soul Earth Our Lives Written Blessing Eternity Hunger Delight Possession Curse Destination Occupation Allies Trifles Short Lived

Book:The Book of Esther

Source: The Book of Esther

“It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.”

Heart Littles Persons Earth Black Attention Flower Gold Dust Contempt Impatience Avarice Unreasonable Caress Merriment Transplants Domestic Life Gold Dust

Book:Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

“In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?”

Source: Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878

“All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.”

Heart Kind Children Earth Mother Desert Absent Desolation Only Child Kind Heart

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.”

Heart Long Earth Remember Fine Noble

Author:Kate Seredy

“Free, free! what a glorious ring to the word. Free! the bitter heart-struggle was over. Free! the soul could go out to heaven and to God with no chains to clog its flight or pull it down. Free! the earth wore a brighter look, and the very stars seemed to sing with joy. Yes, free! free by the laws of man and the smile of God-and Heaven bless them who made me so!”

Men Looks Heart Made Soul Earth Law Joy Heaven Stars Struggle Rings Flight Bitter Chains Glorious Bless Brighter

Book:Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

Source: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

“Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live nearer to Christ than to any person on this earth; so that when they are taken, you may have Him to love and lean upon.”

World Heart May Persons Earth Dies Christ Taken This World Flower Rose Prize Valleys Fades Lilies Sharon

Author:Robert M

“I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.”

People Feels Heart Reason Reality Earth Mother Chance Sorry Reason Why Native Native American Sweetness Mother Earth Good Heart

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon the desert earth alone. And in that deep and utter agony, Though then, then even most unfit to die I fell upon my knees and prayed for death.”

Heart Earth Dies My Heart Desert Knees Agony Fountain Desolation

Author:Charles Robert Maturin

“The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.”

Heart Dream Earth White Winter Snow Helpless

Book:The Dark Dawn

Source: The Dark Dawn

“Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.”

Heart Age Earth Cold Needed Intellect Old Age Vain Ireland Skepticism Glowing Pouring Credulity

Author:Lydia M. Child