The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLeaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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A 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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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A 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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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