Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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