A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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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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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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