It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI 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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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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