Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPride 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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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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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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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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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We 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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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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