Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPeople may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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There 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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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