Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI 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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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