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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher

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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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