If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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I 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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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