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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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