The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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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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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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