There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLeaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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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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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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