A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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