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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no cause, answered Constance, recovering herself, but speaking in a faltering voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And is it truly so? he said at last;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he added, warming into the sanguine vein that traversed even his most desponding moods," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, death!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do not recoi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall not, I fear, have propitious weather for our festival to-night, said Godolphin;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A profound deduction from a wet night, dear Percy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Like our friend C----, rejoined Godolphin, in the s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wear this, dearest, said Godolphin, taking a rose from a flower-stand by the window," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I am happy at last, said he aloud;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lay it on the table, said he to the valet;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sir, said the servant," }, { "from": "human", "value": "naming a village about four miles distant;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Percy Godolphin, the hour has arrived-once more we shall meet. I summon you, fair love, to that meeting--the bed of death. Come! Lucilla Volktman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't alarm the countess, said Godolphin to his servant, in a very low, calm voice;" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did she come alone?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eh, your honour?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was no one with her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes! a little nigger girl: she it was sent me with the letter." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The hour has arrived!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hark! he comes!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! said he, at last finding voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blame not yourself, said she, earnestly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--and here Lucilla drew herself apart from him, and writhed, as with some bitter memory,--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then, in the sudden changes incident to her disease, Lucill...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush! cried Lucilla, starting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thine, thine, Godolphin! she shrieked forth, pointing to the lonely orb;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See to yon gentry cove, cried one of the band;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pish! said an old hag;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I love to see the proud ones tasting the bitter wind and rain as we bear alway; 'tis but a mile longer round to the ford....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Light--light the torches!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Since I have read the whole book, one thought constantly haunts me--the strangeness that I should survive his loss; that the stubborn strings of my heart have not been broken long since; that I live, and live, too, amidst the world! Ay, but not one of the world; with that consci...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely, Jason, you did not come here to discuss the past." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord, as to Thy dear cross we flee, And hope to be forgiven-- So let Thy life our pattern be, And form our souls for heaven." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but may" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to better myself" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He liveth long who liveth well! All other life is short and vain; He liveth longest who can tell Of living most for heavenly gain." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The only really _safe_ ship I know of is the one which is drawn up upon the shore. And oh! reader, is not this true of life? Have you never felt as you sailed across life’s troubled sea, and met with ships of all kinds crossing towards the same harbour, have you never felt that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Shadow of Death." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Thy saints, while here below, With new years new mercies come; But the happiest year they know, Is their last which leads them Home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When wounded sore the stricken heart Lies bleeding and unbound, One only Hand, a piercèd Hand, Can s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, was his simple answer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never felt before that Jesus was so near me as then." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen[#]." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When you see a drunken sot From out the tavern reel, Be thankful for a better lot, And turn not on your heel. Go warn him of the dreadful glass, And save him, if you can; B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, never say a careless word Hath not the power to pain, The shaft may ope some hidden wound That closes not again. Weigh well those light-winged messengers; God marked thy needless word, And with it, too, the falling tear, The heart-pang that it stirred." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "are needless. You may be sure of this, that if God had made, as He has made, many expressions necessary to our ordinary conversation or adapted to our daily wants, such could never be" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not mean to say, nor would I have you think by ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By God’s eternal dwelling-place, Those words went floating by, And still the echo wanders on Throughout eternity. And whispering yet within thy heart, ’The still small voice’ is heard, And thou shall cry, ’O God! forgive My needless bitter word!’" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am not good enough. Reader, which of us would be good enough for Christ, if He required us to be perfect? But He wants us to come just as we are, to come with our sins, and lay them upon Him, Who bore them long ago" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I have never se...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I came to Jesus as I was, Weary, and worn, and sad; I found in Him a resting-place, And He has made me glad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is no hurry. Men, and especially young men, think," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! I’ve got life before ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. God’s ministers invite you, preaching the Gospel of the Blessed God. The open church and the pealing bells invite you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! think of that joyful life, immortal, everlasting, around the throne of Christ. Think of your dear friends who have gone before; think, it may be, of the pious mother, who first taught your infant lips to say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our Father, which art in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, you may say," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be it good or ill, Be it what you will, It must help me on my road, My rugged way to Heaven, please God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some murmur if their sky is clear And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their bright Heaven of blue; And some, with deepest love are filled If but one ray of light, One star of God’s good mercy gild The blackness of their night." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I WANT TO BETTER MYSELF." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We’ve no abiding city here: This may distress the worldling’s mind, But should not cost the saint a tear, Who hopes a better rest to find." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want to better myself!" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In changing my village, am I likely to be any nearer to my God? Shall I read my Bible more often? Shall I get more time for prayer?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall I find as comfortable a home, and as nice companions, as I have here?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is it that so many men leave their work in a place to better themselves, and return without having bettered themselves at all?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! never bear malice, ’twill poison the breast, The storm is all over, then, there let it rest. The hot word of rage has been truly unkind, But the sting of deep sorrow may linger behind. ’Twere better to yield than for ever be foes, One look of compassion strikes harder than b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then forgive and forget!--’tis a rule of such worth, That ’twould scatter rich blessings all over the earth; Turn deserts to gardens of beauty and peace, And bid ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jesus said unto them, this is the work of God that ye believe on Him, whom He hath sent." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the roadside fall and perish, Weary with the march of life." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it _with thy might_. Do not try and do more than you are able; but what you do, do well. It is better to do one thing well, than half-a-dozen badly. There is nothing too small to be done thoroughly--no work so unimportant, that you can say...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest, for He is kind unto the unth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "when" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your wife has often much to put up with--home cares, troubles with the little ones, delicate health, a hard struggle, perhaps," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "therefore, when you come home after your day’s work, always have a kind word ready for her. Do not keep an un...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Shepherd’s chief mourner. The room is deserted, and the coffin is alone in the middle, with the shepherd’s plaid thrown over it; alone, yet not alone, for there, with his head resting on his master’s coffin, sits" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the sheep-dog, who ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--the wisdom of the punishments inflicted by our Father in heaven." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For _now_ we see through a glass darkly; but _then_ face to face: now I know in part, but _then_ shall I know even as also I am known. And now, in all humility, do let m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God[#]." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I pity, says a recent writer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He will die, said the doctor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But doctor, cried the poor father," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "from the home on earth to the home in heaven. Going from pain and sorrow and sin to a better home, where there is no bitter parting, no more sorrow, and no more death. And looking at it in this light, would you wish to keep them, would you even seek to stay their departure for o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look yonder over that beautiful rolling plain, that is all mine as far as the eye can reach. He took him round again to the other side, and showed him thirty miles of pasture, with horses and cattle feeding." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are all mine, he said,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "While I do my duty, Pressing through the tide, Whisper Thou of beauty On the other side. Tell who will the story Of our now distress-- Oh! the future glory, Oh! the loveliness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heaven our home," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As for the prizes that God has ready, I cannot tell you about them; for they are more beautiful than anything you have ever seen, or can fancy. In that glorious country where our Father’s home is, you will have such prizes as you never could have dreamt of. When the time to rece...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Everything round us here has a capacity for rest as well as action. The stormy winds and restless waters can at times be calm and still. The city, with its ceaseless hum and stir of voices and footsteps, lies hushed and quiet in its ni...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sabbath means _rest_. And such indeed God intended Sunday to be." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God[#]. Our Saviour indeed teaches us that the stern and strict way in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We ask one day in seven, ’Twas ours since time began-- Sent by the love of heaven, In pity for toil-worn man." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Church’s one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord; She is His new Creation By water and the Word: From Heaven He came and sought her To be His holy Bride, With His own Blood He bought her, And for her life He died." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I go regularly to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It does not make a man gloomy to become a child of God. Do you think that if a man is dying of thirst and you give him a drink of water, that the _drink_ makes him gloomy? Do you think that when the Queen’s gracious message of pardon comes to a condemned murderer, that the _pard...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, and is Thy Table spread? And doth Thy Cup with Love o’erflow? Thither be all Thy children led, And let them all Thy sweetness know." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am not good enough to come. Reader, which of us is _good enough_ for that sacred feast? If you are waiting until you are" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fear you will have to wait until your hair grows white with age, and even then you will not be" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid of being laughed at! Perhaps you will say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never have said that. No, reader, you may never have _said_ it with your lips, but have you never _thought_ it in your heart? This power of laughter, or ridicule as it is called, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother told me to say my prayers too, but I was afraid." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes. And then God turns to you again, and He looks at the martyr band, and thinks of all that they have suffered, as He asks you--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He suffered the rebukes of many, for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He bare the sin of many. He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed[#]." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and by them they make proof of their religion. Love to Christ as their Head, and obedience to His laws, these are their two great doctrines; and these shall inherit the promises, and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe in the Holy Ghost." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Defend, O Lord, this Thy child, with Thy heavenly grace, that he may continue Thine for ever, and daily increase in Thy Holy Spirit more and more, until he come unto Thine everlasting kingdom. Yes, young man, He was with you at your Confirmation, and heard and noted down the pro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A high mysterious union Which nought on earth may break." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Paradise of God, where" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and where" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that is the things of earth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "means" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you trust that you are _inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost_, to take upon you this office? And that is only another way of asking--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you think you have really received a call from the Holy Spirit?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take heed that the persons, whom ye present unto us, be apt and meet (that is to say, well fitted)" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the use of having a learned clergy, so long as they have the love of God in their hearts? To this objection, I would simply answer, that while doubtless it is far more important to have a godly than a learned Ministry; still the Bible has given us two special instances o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We do not indeed respect the man himself more than he deserves, but we respect God’s minister, on account of his office, and for the reverence we feel for the Master at whose hands he holds it. Secondly, if we really respect the office, we shall readily obey the advice God’s min...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is it that we see some of the clergy leading evil, or even immoral lives? Reader, I understand your difficulty; it is one I have often felt myself. But just ask yourself this question. Is there any profession on earth, of which it can be said, that _every single member_ is l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me[#]." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That kindles in the breast." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New mercies each returning day, Hover around us while we pray; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boys, shall we turn back, it is almost certain death to go on? The ship seems to have gone down, and, no doubt, all hands have perished. But one of his mates answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As I ran along the cliff, I saw behind a hedge two ladies praying. I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh that I had wings like a dove, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Master felt it, for He continued whole nights alone in prayer to God. And God’s saints in every age have felt it. In this busy life of ours we must often feel rest and solitude acceptable. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alas! I possess no influence, what can I do? Now it is true that many have no wealth, no beauty, no rank, no intellect, no learning; but there never has been a heart created since the world began, that has not received and exerted the precious, though much-abused gift of influen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young men be strong for Jesus, To toil for Him is gain-- And Jesus wrought for Joseph With chisel, saw, and plane." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men[#], the command has been binding upon all Christians. To go out upon the grand field of philanthropy, of love of men, is the noblest occupation that our poor life can have. To spend and be spent in the service of our fellow-men is a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young man, I say unto thee arise! the preacher said--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We need young men, fired with the thought that they are called by Christ to be the saviours of society from the sins that are wasting it, to render to their country and to humanity t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A friend I had, long, long ago, And one I learnt to prize, He taught a truth that all should know-- In work true honour lies. A frank and cheerful face had he, And a heart as light as heart could be. * * * * * He has found his rest in Heaven above, But has left a golden fame; Fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Make friends with sober men, who can talk and laugh without incessant liquor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear father, you must think me childish if you imagine I should be exposed to danger by going. Sophronius took, in silence, a dead coal from the hearth, and g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He keeps such bad company. And though I knew the young man in question well, and knew that whatever his companions might be, he himself was pure and good, still it was of no use my speaking to the foreman, because he _was_ keeping bad company. Depend upon it, reader, there is tr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’m no scholar." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Except ye be converted, and become _as little children_, ye shall in nowise enter into the kingdom of Heaven." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When He was reviled, He reviled not again[#];" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Honesty is the best policy is a saying we frequently hear. And we may have said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! that’s all very well for thieves and such like, but it doesn’t apply to me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, buy some matches." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, don’t want any, the gentleman said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But they are only a penny a box, the poor little fellow pleaded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He lay within the light of God Like a babe upon the breast, Where the wicked cease from troubling And the weary are at rest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can I lay my hand upon my heart and say, My God, I am honest indeed, honest as that poor child was, honest before my neighbours, honest before Thee." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It may be we are called upon to give up our time to go and see a sick neighbour, or it may be we are asked to do a neighbour a good turn by going on an errand for them when we wish to go elsewhere. But whatever it may be, it is certain that opportunities for practising self-deni...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And as they went out they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; him they compelled to bear His Cross." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Therefore ask Him to give you strength to take up your cross daily, cheerfully and lovingly, and bear it after Him. Then self-denial will be less hard for you to practise than it is now. I do not say it will be pleasant, for that it can never be, but the sting of it will be take...