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Spurgeon's Gold contains more than 2400 selections—many of them the best of proverbs—from the works of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the greatest of London preachers, whose sermons and books are read all over the world. This book will allow his best thoughts to be read and remembered by those who cannot hear him, and have not the leisure to search the voluminous works of the prince of preachers,...

For a man to abstain from using force when he has none to use is no great virtue; it reminds one of the lines of Cowper’s ballad: “Stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright.” But for a man to have force ready to his hand, and then to abstain from using it, is a case of self-restraint, and possibly of self-sacrifice, of a far nobler kind. To injure another is worse by far than being injured ourselves. If a man is ignorant and holds his tongue, no one will despise him. Lord! help me to
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