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.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROur best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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 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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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