The dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDeath is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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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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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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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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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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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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