A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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