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 BEECHERThere 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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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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