A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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