Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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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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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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