The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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The 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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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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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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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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 mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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