Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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