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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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