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Words of Comfort
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The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul that
rejoices E. Shepard
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven
H.W. Beecher
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts, not
amid joy Hemans
B-204
What seem to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven’s distant
lamps Longfellow
B-205
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of
Eternity Milton
B-206
There is a sweet job that comes to us through sorrow
Spurgeon
B-207
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal
Moore
B-208
Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy Shakespeare
B-209
Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure Sir Oliver Lodge
B-210
Every man’s life is a plan of God Horace Bushnell
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The acts of this life are the destiny of the next Eastern proverb
B-212
Sorrows are like tall angels with star-crowns in their
hair Margery Eldredge Howell
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The heart of him who truly loves is a paradise on earth
Lamennais
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Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss Milton
B-215
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of
another Leibnitz
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Humble love, and not proud science, keeps the door of
heaven Young
B-217
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy Beaumont and Fletcher
B-174
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule Cowper
B-219
Nature’s loving proxy, the watchful mother Bulwer
B-220
Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the
soul Longfellow
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The kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth,
One’s nearer God’s heart in a garden, than anywhere else on earth
Dorothy Francis
B-222
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work
anew Rudyard Kipling
B-224
The end and the reward of toil is rest James Beattie
B-225
In His will is our peace Dante
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Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past Lowell
B-227
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory… Shelley
B-228
Each lonely scene shall thee restore William Collins
B-146
Things past belong to memory alone, things future are the property
of hope John Home
B-230
Yet in this heart’s most sacred place, thou, alone, shall dwell
forever Moore
B-231
… There hath pass’d away a glory from the earth Wordsworth
B-232
Joy, joy forever! – My task is done – the gates are pass’d and
heaven is won Moore
B-233
The cross leads generations on Shelley
B-234
… The heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in
Thee St. Augustine
B-235
God is and all is well Whittier
B-236
Death’s but a path to be trod if man would ever pass to
God T. Parnell
B-237
Onward to thy glory! ‘Tis always morning somewhere in the
world R. H. Horne
B-238
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound H. Melville
B-239
He hath awakened from the dream of life Shelley
B-240
Beyond is the infinite morning of a day without tomorrow W.S.
Abbott
B-241
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the
o’erfraught
heart and bids it break… Shakespeare
B-242
Where He leads me I can safely go Millay
B-243
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us
Tennyson
B-244
Whither thou goest, I will go Ruth i:16
B-245
But in the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can
hear the
rustle of a
wing Ingeresoll
B-246
There never was night that had no morn D. M. N. Craik
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Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death Young
B-248
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away Cant. ii: 17
B-249
‘Tis not the whole of life to live, nor all of death to
die J. Montgomery
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground Wilde
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Now twilight lets her curtain down and pins it with a star
L. M. Child
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Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal Moore
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Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest Goethe
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His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than words, was
simple
doing good Whittier
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