A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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