Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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