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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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