Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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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!
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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