To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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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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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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