Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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