No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe 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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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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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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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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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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