Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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