A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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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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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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