Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA 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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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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