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A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
— Henry David Thoreau
I value and trust those w^ho love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance.
— Henry David Thoreau
There was a shepherd that did live, And held his thoughts as high As were the mounts whereon his flocks Did hourly feed him by.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have
— Henry David Thoreau
We look to the Bible but not to get ideas from what people did for God. We look to see what God did in peoples' lives.
— Henry Blackaby
Leaders ought never to allow the least motivated members of an organization to set the pace for the others. Rather
— Henry Blackaby
eloquence, charisma, or intelligence but on his surrendered life to Christ. Moody could not make himself more talented, but he could choose to be more surrendered. As he yielded his life to God, he immediately began to experience God using him in ways he could never have imagined. Moody
— Henry Blackaby
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16—17
— Henry Blackaby
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
— Herman Melville
Genius is full of trash.
— Herman Melville
Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.
— Herman Melville
I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality
— Herman Melville