We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLife would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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