It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere 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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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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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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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 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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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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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.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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