Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod 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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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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