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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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