Some people are proud of their humility.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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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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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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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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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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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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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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