The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
HENRY WARD BEECHERFind out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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