A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe 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 man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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