The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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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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The dog is the god of frolic.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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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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